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New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 4,942 in the week ending May 11, up from 4,618 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 222,000 last ...
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 207,000 last week, down 5,000 from 212,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Rhode Island saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
Leadership. The current Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development is Lauren Jones, who was appointed by Governor Maura Healey in January 2023.. Mission. The EOLWD missions is to enhance the quality, diversity and stability of Massachusetts' workforce by making available new opportunities and training, protecting the rights of workers, preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, ensuring ...
t. e. Unemployment insurance in the United States, colloquially referred to as unemployment benefits, refers to social insurance programs which replace a portion of wages for individuals during unemployment. The first unemployment insurance program in the U.S. was created in Wisconsin in 1932, and the federal Social Security Act of 1935 created ...
A former state of Michigan employee must pay back nearly $50,000 after being convicted of embezzling from the Unemployment Insurance Agency for years. A former state of Michigan employee must pay ...
Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed added to those unemployed). Unemployment can have many sources, such as the following: the status of the economy, which can be influenced by a recession
The state joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in 2009, though the Compact has not yet achieved sufficient national support to be activated. Executive. Massachusetts has 151 departments or agencies and over 700 independent boards and commissions.
The Unemployment Insurance Agency of Michigan agreed to pay out $55 million in jobless claims it improperly clawed back from workers during the pandemic. The Unemployment Insurance Agency of ...