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A Senate bill introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) on August 4, 2010, will, if passed, benefit those who have exhausted all of their benefits by providing an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits under a Tier 5. The bill has an unemployment rate threshold of 7.5% which requires states to have an unemployment rate at 7.5% or ...
Many people think 99 weeks -- the current maximum to collect benefits -- is enough time to find a job and another unemployment benefits extension is a disincentive to finding work. Others say that ...
Eligible to claimants who exhaust EUC Tier 1 benefits; No state unemployment rate requirements – available in every state (a state high unemployment trigger was required before Nov 6, 2009) Starting Jun 1, 2012, requires 3-month seasonally adjusted total unemployment rate (TUR) of at least 6.0%; EUC Tier 3 Provides up to 13 weeks of benefits
Not only did the unemployment rate hold at 9.5 percent, but last week the number of initial unemployment claims climbed to 479,000 -- that's 19,000 more than the week before. 131,000 jobs were ...
Last week the number of people filing for unemployment benefits was actually lower than it was the week before, which is a sign that layoffs could be slowing. In the week ending Feb. 27, initial ...
I don't know how this was kept a secret for so long, but a newspaper in Namibia is reporting that the country had 51.2 percent unemployment in 2008. That's a far cry from the U.S. unemployment ...
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] The median duration was 17.0 weeks. 22.6% of people who were unemployed found a new job in less than 5 weeks, while 37.3% had been unemployed for 27 weeks or more. [3]
There were 471,000 new claims for unemployment benefits last week -- that's 25,000 more than the week before. That's also the highest number of new Unemployment Numbers: What You Should Know