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It lowered the state’s unemployment rate to 5.2% from 5.3%, which was the highest in the nation. The added jobs accounted for 16.1% of the country’s gains while California has an 11% labor ...
In the United States, there is a standard of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation, known as "regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits".As of December 2020, the U.S. has three programs for extending unemployment benefits: [1] Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
California has 11% of all jobs nationwide, but the state’s May gain accounted for 16.1% of the national job increase. Among the 11 sectors that make up California’s job market, eight saw ...
The statewide unemployment rate went up a notch to 5.3% in August (from 5.2% in July), tied with Illinois for the second highest behind Nevada’s 5.5% rate, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said.
California's unemployment rate is now the highest in the country, reaching 5.3% in February following new data that revealed job growth in the nation's most populous state was much lower last year ...
The most recent extension was provided by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which extended unemployment benefits until the end of 2013. [ 2 ] The United States Department of Labor 's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average (mean) duration of unemployment in weeks was 37.2 weeks in November 2013. [ 3 ]
California Assembly Bill 5 (2019) California State Legislature; Full name: An act to amend Section 3351 of, and to add Section 2750.3 to, the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 606.5 and 621 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment, and making an appropriation therefor: Introduced: 2018-12-03: Assembly voted: 2019-09-11 (56 ...
There is some brighter news. There were 17.99 million nonfarm jobs in the state last month, up 5,200 from March. But on an annual basis, total nonfarm jobs were up 1.2%, below the U.S. gain of 1.8%.