J.B. Pritzker signed executive orders in his first week in office to improve wage opportunities for women and target workforce training money to growth industries . The state's unemployment rate is 0.4 percentage points higher than the national rate. The national unemployment rate rose in De...
The state’s 5 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s third-worst; its Black unemployment rate is second-worst. …Last year, more than 140,000 government workers and retirees in Illinois received more than $100,000 in salaries or pensions. …its unfunded state pensions liability has, ...
The Act was the first federal law to limit European immigration. It came in on a wave of anti-immigration hysteria following a series of events including the 1919 recession and the resulting high unemployment rates and governmental policy at the time of isolation. [Pictured: Newly arrived Europea...
How Long Before Receiving Pennsylvania Unemployment Benefits? When Do You Have to Pay Back Welfare Benefits? Minimum Income In order for a creditor to garnish an employee's wages, the employee must have income that is greater than 45 times the Illinois minimum wageorthefederal minimum wage,whiche...
In a 2016 op-ed for theLos Angeles Times, Steven Greenhouse (labor and workplace reporter for the New York Times from 1995 to 2014) predicted that the rise of automated cars will erase 5 million American jobs. Few are expected to be hit harder than taxi drivers, who face unemployment not...
during this time, with the automobile industry as a prime example. 1958 was the worst year for automotive workers since the industry-wide wartime halt a decade earlier. This period of economic distress lasted less than a year, but impacted unemployment, spending, and the strength of the dollar...