Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the system of unemployment benefits was expanded in such a way that it enabled self-employed people to get weekly checks. Few safeguards were in place to prevent ineligible people from getting these checks. [4] This led to massive fraud, reaching around $20 billion, [5] "perhaps the largest fraud wave in ...
The surge in unemployment brought on by the COVID pandemic pushed the state’s unemployment insurance ... rate. Last year California’s jobless workers received on average $385 a week, replacing ...
The state's workforce participation rate was 57.7%, down from October, when it was 58.3%. The national rate is 62.5%. This rate is a measure of the number of adults ei
According to Michele Evermore, senior policy advisor for unemployment insurance at the U.S. Department of Labor, individuals who test positive for COVID-19 and stay home to recover are not ...
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act is an Act of Congress meant to respond to the economic impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The act provides funding for free coronavirus testing, 14-day paid leave for American workers affected by the pandemic, and increased funding for food stamps .
South Florida’s tri-county region posted 2.6% jobless mark last month. Florida jobless rate stays at 2.7% in August. Miami metro area boasts state’s lowest unemployment