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The regional one-stop centers and offices provide a variety of services to meet the workforce and workplace needs of job seekers, dislocated workers, unemployed persons and Iowa businesses through partnerships of state and local service providers. They provide job counseling, job training, job placement and assistance to special needs populations.
Changes to Iowa's jobless benefits worked: The system efficiently helps Iowans get back to earning a paycheck, writes Michael Greibrok.
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.
Before 2011, every state in the country offered as many as 26 weeks of unemployment insurance, according to a 2022 Congressional Research Service report, but the Great Recession changed everything.
The CBPP wrote in January 2013: "[December 2012] is the 34th straight month of private-sector job creation, with payrolls growing by 5.3 million jobs (a pace of 157,000 jobs a month) since February 2010; total nonfarm employment (private plus government jobs) has grown by 4.8 million jobs over the same period, or 141,000 a month.
Business owners say decreased unemployment costs are helping them cope with inflation. But labor advocates say the cuts could drive workers away
Unemployment in the US by State (June 2023) The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
If you've recently lost your job in Iowa, you may be eligible for Iowa Unemployment Insurance benefits. This is a guide to filing your claim for Iowa unemployment benefits. Since each situation ...