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Ending strikes sooner would ultimately alleviate unemployment insurance costs, Gonzalez Fletcher said, because workers who are not on strike but lose their jobs as a result of the stoppage do ...
The state’s unemployment insurance debt, which ballooned as a result of the pandemic, is in dire straits with no clear path forward. Unemployment insurance: California’s ‘urgent’ $20 ...
Weekly unemployment claims are seen as a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week. Applications for unemployment benefits fell by 9,000 to 218,000 for the week ending Feb. 3, the Labor ...
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 number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose last week to the highest level in 11 weeks, though layoffs remain at historically low levels. Applications for unemployment benefits ...
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
Jobless claims applications ticked up modestly last week, but the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits rose to their highest level in more than three years. Applications for ...
Additionally, not all claimants will actually receive unemployment benefits. [1] The report is released weekly at 08:30 Eastern Time on Thursdays. The data in the report is collected from state unemployment agencies who report the information to the Department of Labor's Office of Unemployment Insurance.