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New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 2,264 in the week ending February 24, up from 2,110 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 215,000 last ...
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 2,268 in the week ending April 20, down from 2,448 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 207,000 last ...
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 2,410 in the week ending August 10, down from 2,572 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 227,000 last ...
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 ...
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 United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemployment benefits, reemployment services, and occasionally, economic statistics.
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 1,985 in the week ending September 7, down from 2,355 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 230,000 last ...
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