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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%.
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.
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]
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 weekly number of unemployment claims continues to creep up for the second consecutive week, after a very short-lived downward trend. See: Do You Think the Minimum Wage Should Be $15? Take Our ...
As the Omicron variant spreads through the country, it will undoubtedly result in a new wave of employees needing time off from their jobs. While early pandemic-era federal benefits allowed for...
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