Krugman claims that workers have enjoyed a “boom” because “real wages have basically been flat.” But even that claim is only possible if you ignore what’s happened to prices for food and energy. Call me crazy, but this is the economic equivalent of “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln,...
Julia Dale the director of the Unemployment Insurance Agency, points to a workforce increasing by over five times, and a record level number of claims during the pandemic - with newly created complex federal assistance programs. Her statement reads in part: "As UIA worked quic...
The latter quantifies the number of unemployed workers in a state’s work force, while the insured unemployment rate is a 13-week moving average of the weeks of unemployment benefits claims divided by the number of individuals covered. In order for this program to start in Michigan, the stat...
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits swelled to 6.6 million last week, surging for the third consecutive week as strict measures to contain the novelcoronavirusparalyzed the nation'seconomy. Claims between the period of March 28 and April 4 neared the previous week's record of 6.8...
Kentucky https://uiclaims.des.ky.gov/ebenefit/eben.htm Louisiana www.louisianaworks.net/HiRE Maine https://reemployme.maine.gov/ Maryland https://beacon.labor.maryland.gov/claimant/ Massachusetts https://ui-cares-act.mass.gov/PUA/_/ Michigan https://www.michigan.gov/leo/0,5863,7-336-784...
(5.5). The largest increases in initial claims for the week were in Illinois (+49,557), Kansas (+22,128), California (+21,636), Texas (+18,732), and New York (+16,204), while the largest decreases were in Colorado (-10,996), Michigan (-5,802), Kentucky (-5,542), ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Oct. 21. Related: Jobless Claims Dip Slightly to 250,000 The national unemployment rate saw a slight decline over the month, down to 3.5%. Last year’s September 2021 unemployment rate was 4.7%. Forty-six states and the district had their unemployment rate...
In Thursday’s report, the government said nearly 16.9 million people were receiving unemployment aid during the week of April 24, the latest period for which data is available. That is up from 16.2 million in the previous week. The increase occurred mostly in California and Michigan. More tha...
(2013)show the importance of safety nets in the US. For instance, the number of SNAP-UI claims increased by 57% after the recession, which amounts to roughly three-quarters of a million, or about one out of every 15 Florida residents. Given that the growth of SNAP alone was over ...
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — New unemployment claims rose slightly in Maine last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to complicate the jobs picture in the state and around the country.