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Unemployment insurance is funded by both federal and state payroll taxes. In most states, employers pay state and federal unemployment taxes if: (1) they paid wages to employees totaling $1,500 or more in any quarter of a calendar year, or (2) they had at least one employee during any day of a week for 20 or more weeks in a calendar year, regardless of whether those weeks were consecutive.
Workers in most states have 26 weeks of paid unemployment benefits, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21% of workers are now taking more than 27 weeks to find a new job, up 3% from ...
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
At least 46 states have paid out all the benefits available under the Lost Wages Assistance program, while the remaining will just pay for the weeks up to September 5.
Right now, 8.7 million Americans are unemployed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many of those people are relying on unemployment insurance to get by, and for some, those benefits will...
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
The U.S. unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly in May, but not all workers benefited equally as joblessness among African Americans and Asians rose, signaling some minorities face a longer ...
Even as unemployment remains at an 80-year high, Congress is considering letting the extra $600 a week in jobless benefits expire at the end of July.