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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.
The Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman Jim McDermott that would give an extra 13 weeks of unemployment benefits to jobless workers in states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or more. [1]
When it comes to unemployment in America, the good news is that rates in general are low. As of June 2022, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the national unemployment rate was 3.6% for ...
Louisiana. June unemployment rate: 9.7% Average rent for a one-bedroom apartment: $685 Total population (ages 18 and older): 3,431,432 Adults unable to pay for housing: 755,099 Percentage of ...
The state's unemployment insurance trust fund is the smallest in the country, and is running dangerously low, containing only $1.3 million -- about 0.1% of total state wages. ... On May 14, the ...
In the United States, there are 50 state unemployment insurance programs plus one each in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands. Though policies vary by state, unemployment benefits generally pay eligible workers as high as US$1,015 in Massachusetts to a low as US$235 per week maximum in Mississippi .
The bill would also amend the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2014, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an ...
Averaging out unemployment claims over the last five weeks shows that Michigan, Florida, and Alabama were hit with the highest spike in people applying for unemployment benefits.