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State officials maintained that it was the deluge of pandemic-era federal unemployment regulations that slowed jobless claims. Federal money for NJ to update its system
New Jersey officials unveiled the new online unemployment application process Tuesday, with the goal of revamping the old and confusing process.
New Jersey's unemployment and motor vehicle systems had to make rapid shifts to digital platforms at the start of the pandemic. What we learned.
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.
According to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development, nearly 577,000 New Jersey workers filed for unemployment benefits over the previous three weeks. [138] By April 23, or five weeks since aggressive social distancing began, more than 858,000 New Jersey workers had filed for unemployment benefits. [ 63 ]
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.
Roughly 4,500 dock workers represented by the International Longshoremen's Association are employed in New York and New Jersey, said New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, out of more than 47,000 across the ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 231,000 for the week ended Aug. 24. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 232,000 claims for the latest week ...