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Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in North Carolina last week compared with the week prior.
Those qualifying for Disaster Unemployment Assistance, in the 39 declared counties, will be represented in the dashboard data. The dashboard is also expected to help lawmakers and stakeholders.
Disaster Unemployment Assistance offers up to 6 months of payments, much longer than North Carolina's regular maximum assistance of 12 weeks.
North Carolina unemployment: 3.3% Year to year, 3,571 more people working compared to October 2022. 6,833 unemployed individuals in the region as of October 2023.
McCrory signed legislation that made North Carolina the 8th state to cut unemployment benefits since the start of the Great Recession. In addition to cutting maximum weekly unemployment benefits by 35%, the legislation reduced the maximum number of weeks of assistance to between 12 and 20, down from 26.
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Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 231,000 for the week ended Aug. 24. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 232,000 claims for the latest week.
Dale Robbins Folwell (born December 17, 1958) [1] is an American politician who served as the North Carolina State Treasurer from 2017 to 2025. A Republican from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Folwell spent four terms in North Carolina House of Representatives, including a term as speaker pro tempore from 2011 to 2013. [2]