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John Deere announced it will lay off about 600 employees across three US factories as the Illinois-based company shifts production to a newly planned facility in Ramos, Mexico.
Since the pandemic, Illinois ranks 47th in the country in job growth and last among all neighboring states in job growth rate with only 1,200 more jobs than were available in January 2020, making ...
Some 76,000 Illinois residents received $123 million in excess regular unemployment benefits since the pandemic hit, and they may be able to keep the money — as long as they haven’t already ...
Signs on door of a Graeter's ice cream parlor in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Cincinnati during government-mandated closings. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the United States restaurant industry via government closures, resulting in layoffs of workers and loss of income for restaurants and owners and threatening the survival of independent restaurants as a category.
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.
Manufacturing in Illinois accounts for 14% of the state's total output and generates $101 billion in economic activity. [15] Illinois's manufacturing sector grew out of its agricultural production. A key piece of infrastructure for several generations was the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, which from 1865 until 1971 penned and slaughtered ...
The pandemic unemployment benefits have been extended three times during the pandemic — the last time in March — and have delivered a total of more than $800 billion to families.
According to new data, the push by states to fill vacant jobs by ending unemployment benefits was not fruitful. Using recent data from the Household Pulse Survey collected by the U.S. Census ...