Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week, but the level of claims remains at healthy levels. Jobless claims rose by 4,000 to 232,000 for the week of Aug. 17, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average ...
US unemployment benefits jump to 410,000MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Low unemployment and rapid pay increases could further heighten inflation as companies raise prices to cover higher labour costs. Price increases have already surged to a four-decade high, prompting a sharp pivot by the Federal Reserve, from keeping rates low to support hiring to moving toward rai...
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped last week to 406,000, a new pandemic low and more evidence that the job market is strengthening as the virus wanes and economy further reopens. Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined ...
An example of implementing stricter unemployment benefits is a new law that passed in the state of Arizona, which has the second lowest unemployment benefits in the US. Under the new law, which took effect in August 2018, after four weeks of collecting unemployment an individual “would have ...
Payroll tax is a larger bucket that consists of Social Security and Medicare taxes (FICA taxes), state unemployment taxes (SUTA) and federal unemployment taxes (FUTA). So, whenever you hire a new employee, you must collect those required initial forms, as you will use this information and de...
John Kerry calls on us to hope. John Edwards calls on us to hope. I'm not talking about blind optimism here - the almost willful ignorance that thinks unemployment will go away if we just don't talk about it, or the health care crisis will solve itself if we just ignore it. No, ...
This guide will help employers understand what to expect and what they may need to do when laid-off employees file for unemployment.
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell as the nation celebrated Thanksgiving last week to a still-high 712,000, the latest sign that the U.S. economy and job mark...
work. For jobless people who earned less than $32,000 a year at their former jobs, their combined federal unemployment aid plus state benefits means they are receiving at least as much from jobless benefits as they did when they worked, according to an estimate by economists at Bank of ...