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  2. 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 ...

  3. Unemployment benefits - Wikipedia

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    Economics. Unemployment benefits, also called unemployment insurance, unemployment payment, unemployment compensation, or simply unemployment, are payments made by governmental bodies to unemployed people. Depending on the country and the status of the person, those sums may be small, covering only basic needs, or may compensate the lost time ...

  4. 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 ...

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

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    U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 212,000 last week, down 8,000 claims from 220,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Kentucky saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...

  6. Denied unemployment benefits? Here are your options - AOL

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    Americans denied an unemployment claim have the right to an appeal—which doesn’t require a lawyer. This process varies by state, but usually the denied party has around 30 days to start the ...

  7. Here's the difference between jobless claims and the ... - AOL

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    And today we're going to try to square up jobless claims versus the unemployment rate. And you'll notice that we've got a pretty startling number this morning. Right, 701,000 jobs lost in the ...

  8. US applications for jobless claims hold at healthy levels

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    Unemployment claims for the week ending March 2 were 217,000, matching the previous week's revised level, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, a less volatile ...

  9. Ohio Department of Job and Family Services - Wikipedia

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    jfs .ohio .gov. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services ( ODJFS) is the administrative department of the Ohio state government [1] responsible for supervising the state's public assistance, workforce development, unemployment compensation, child and adult protective services, adoption, child care, and child support programs.