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May marked the 49th month of job market expansion for California after the state lost 2.7 million jobs at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The state has added over 3.1 million jobs since May ...
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.
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 ...
L.A. County’s unemployment rate overall went up to 5.6% in August from 5.5% the previous month and 5.1% a year earlier. Regionally, job gains last month were led by the Central Valley, according ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The state gained 107,100 nonfarm payroll jobs over the first six months of 2024, more than double the same time frame last year when 38,400 jobs were added, the EDD said. Unemployment went down in ...