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Continuing claims rose slightly between the July and August survey periods. Economists are expecting the jobless rate this month to either have remained near a three-year high of 4.3% or fallen to ...
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in more than eight months, offering more evidence that the labor market was steadily cooling.
Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...
The four-week average of claims, which strips out week-to-week ups and downs, fell by 3,500 to 223,250. The overall numbers receiving unemployment benefits fell by 52,000 to 1.84 million, the ...
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.
The Emergency Unemployment Compensation 2008 (EUC08) is an extension of unemployment benefits authorized under federal law. The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (enacted on Feb 22, 2012) modified EUC08. [4] [5] Claimants who filed an initial claim effective on or after May 7, 2006 are potentially eligible for EUC08.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000 for the week ended May 11, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...
At UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco (UCSF), and UCLA, the minimum pay would increase to $36,500. [22] The agreement would also provide enhanced child care reimbursements, healthcare for dependents, and supplemental tuition for up to three years for eligible international student employees [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The agreement was left to the rank-and-file ...