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By executive order, the governor of Wisconsin will from time-to-time appoint special committees to study a particular issue and advise the state. There are a number of such committees currently working under the umbrella of the Department of Workforce Development: [1] Joint Enforcement Task Force on Payroll Fraud and Worker Misclassification
This brings the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin to 651,338. [4] The state's death toll is 7,558, with 30 new deaths over the previous 7 days. As of August 25, 2021, 12.41% of Wisconsin's residents have been positively diagnosed with COVID-19, the 20th highest per-capita case rate among all US states. [3]
On 11 May, it was reported that the number of people receiving the COVID-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment had slightly decreased for the first time since its establishment, though this was attributed to employees being offered the Temporary COVID-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme instead. [13] [14] A further slight fall occurred the following week. [15] [16]
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell markedly last week following a big increase the week before. Jobless claim applications declined by 22,000 to 220,000 for the week ...
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U.S. unemployment claims rose to 214,000 last week, up 25,000 claims from 189,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Wisconsin saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
In March 2020, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, American unemployment saw a huge increase; claims in one week rose to 3.3 million from 281,000 on the previous week. The previous record for unemployment claims in one week was only about one fifth as high, at 695,000 claims in 1982.
As the Omicron variant spreads through the country, it will undoubtedly result in a new wave of employees needing time off from their jobs. While early pandemic-era federal benefits allowed for...