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The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government responsible for providing services to Wisconsin workers, employers, and job-seekers to meet Wisconsin's workforce needs.
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.9% in October, below the national rate of 4.1%. The state also broke September’s record for the numbers of ...
The state’s county data showed similar trends with 54 of the 72 counties seeing a decrease or having employment rates stay the same over the mon ... Unemployment rates dropped in 10 of Wisconsin ...
This comes after the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 2.9%, below the 4.2% national average. The unemployment rate went down or was the same in 11 of the 12 metropolitan ...
The US Employment Service (ES) is the national system of public employment offices, managed by state workforce agencies and their localities, and funded by the Department of Labor. [1] It is supervised by the Employment and Training Administration and was established by the Wagner–Peyser Act of 1933.
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.
New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 7,765 in the week ending Jan. 20, up from 6,549 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims rose to 214,000 last week ...
The Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA) is an agency of the Wisconsin state government which provides a range of services and programs, from operations, technology, and logistical support for the state, to assistance programs for low-income homes, to state gaming. The department's services to other state agencies and offices include ...