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MAG receives nearly $2.5 Million annually. State of Illinois has announced in 2014 that residents can apply at two area agencies; a single-person household can qualify with a monthly income of up to $1,459; a two-person household up to $1,966; a family of three can earn up to $2,474; and a family of four can earn up to $2,981. [4]
(The Center Square) – Unemployment in Illinois climbed to 5.3% in October, making the state home to the third highest jobless rate in the country. All told, some 346,000 residents were left ...
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that administers state unemployment benefits, runs the employment service and Illinois Job Bank, and publishes labor market information. [3] As of 12 January 2015, Jeffrey D. Mays was the Director of Employment Security. [4]
Illinois’ minimum wage is rising from $14 per hour to $15 on Jan 1, the final increase in a series of annual increases from a law Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed in February of 2019.
Illinois’ unemployment rate is third worst of all states in the country with most neighboring states ranking much higher with lower unemployment rates. The state has also lost population 10 of ...
Under Carter, the unemployment rate declined from 8.1% when he took office to 5.7% by July 1978, [153] [154] but during the early 1980s recession it returned to its pre-1977 level. [155] The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) measured a 6.6% unemployment rate average during the Carter administration. [ 156 ]
The BMI takes the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates, and adds to that the interest rate, plus (minus) the shortfall (surplus) between the actual and trend rate of GDP growth. In the late 2000s, Johns Hopkins economist Steve Hanke built upon Barro's misery index and began applying it to countries beyond the United States. His modified ...
Some 76,000 Illinois residents received $123 million in excess regular unemployment benefits since the pandemic hit, and they may be able to keep the money — as long as they haven’t already ...