Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The system had processed claims for 30.8 percent of civilian workers in Washington, the highest of any state in the United States. [6] The fraud ring, named Scattered Canary by security researchers, had also filed fraudulent unemployment claims in six other states and is under investigation from the U.S. Department of Justice. [7]
The weekly jobless claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday, the most timely data on the economy's health, also showed jobless rolls shrunk to levels last seen in early June. The U.S ...
Still, after mostly staying below 220,000 this year, weekly claims have steadily moved up recently. The four-week average of claims, which softens some of the week-to-week volatility, rose by ...
The Department of Labor and Industries was created by an act of the state legislature in 1921, overseeing industrial insurance, worker safety, and industrial relations. [2] [3] The new agency superseded the Bureau of Labor, created in 1901 to inspect workplaces, and minor state boards and commissions monitoring worker health, safety, and insurance claims.
The so-called continuing claims rose 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 1.794 million during the week ending May 11, the claims report showed. Continuing claims are at historically low levels.
Washington Week with The Atlantic (originally Washington Week in Review from 1967 to 2005 and Washington Week from 2005 to August 2023) is an American public affairs television program, which has aired on PBS and its predecessor, National Educational Television, since 1967. Unlike other panel discussion shows which encourage informal (sometimes ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 198,000 for the week ended Oct. 14, the Labor Department said on Thursday. ... US weekly jobless claims ...
Since this statistic is published weekly, it is commonly depended on as a current indicator of the labor market and the economy generally. In 2016, the number of people on unemployment benefits fell to around 2.14 million, the lowest in the last 4 decades. [65] In April 2020, claims reached 40 million, a new all-time high. [citation needed]