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Wisconsin saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 18.6%. North Dakota, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 43.2%.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.9% in October, below the national rate of 4.1%. The state also broke September’s record for the numbers of ...
By executive order, the governor of Wisconsin will from time-to-time appoint special committees to study a particular issue and advise the state. There are a number of such committees currently working under the umbrella of the Department of Workforce Development: [1] Joint Enforcement Task Force on Payroll Fraud and Worker Misclassification
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits held steady last week, though continuing claims rose to the highest level in three years. Jobless claim applications ticked down by 1,000 ...
In March 2020, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, American unemployment saw a huge increase; claims in one week rose to 3.3 million from 281,000 on the previous week. The previous record for unemployment claims in one week was only about one fifth as high, at 695,000 claims in 1982.
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.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000 for the week ended May 11, the Labor Department said. ... The number of people receiving benefits ...
This brings the cumulative total of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin to 651,338. [4] The state's death toll is 7,558, with 30 new deaths over the previous 7 days. As of August 25, 2021, 12.41% of Wisconsin's residents have been positively diagnosed with COVID-19, the 20th highest per-capita case rate among all US states. [3]