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  2. Unemployment claims in Massachusetts declined last week - AOL

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    Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell ...

  3. Unemployment insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Unemployment claims in Massachusetts declined for week ... - AOL

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    Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts for week ending Jan. 6, compared with the week prior.

  5. New filings for unemployment in Massachusetts declined ... - AOL

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    Staff reports. March 18, 2024 at 5:28 AM. Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New ...

  6. Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce ...

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    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 ...

  7. Unemployment benefits - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by authorized bodies to unemployed people. In the United States, benefits are funded by a compulsory governmental insurance system, not taxes on individual citizens.

  8. Unemployment claims, a key figure of economic strength, fell ...

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    Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts last week compared with the week prior. ... U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 212,000 last week, down 8,000 claims from ...

  9. Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The unemployment rate fell by 2 percentage points under Obama versus 1.2 points under Trump. Coronavirus closures. In March 2020, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, American unemployment saw a huge increase; claims in one week rose to 3.3 million from 281,000 on the previous week. The previous record for unemployment claims in one week was only ...