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California’s unemployment remains the highest state rate in the nation. New data from the state’s Employment Development Department put the April rate at 5.3% for the third consecutive month ...
Currently California employers pay a federal unemployment insurance tax of 1.2% on the first $7,000 of wages per employee, but that will rise incrementally every year so long as California is in ...
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 following is a list of California unemployment statistics. Many of the counties with the lowest unemployment rates had relatively high levels of income. They were also located in Northern California, with two exceptions: Orange and San Luis Obispo counties. The counties with the highest unemployment rates were generally located in inland ...
California and Nevada share the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.2%. Only the District of Columbia is higher, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at 5.4%.
The act (Statutes 1935, chapter 352) was set up to provide "a (monetary) reserve to assist in protecting the public against the social effects of unemployment." The purpose of the department was to operate a statewide system of employment agencies and distribute the payment of unemployment insurance to eligible unemployed workers. [citation needed]
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.
March 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's unemployment rate is now the highest in the country, reaching 5.3% in February following new data that revealed job growth in ...