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Introducedin the Senate as S. 1845by Sen. Jack Reed (D, RI)on December 17, 2013. The Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act(S. 1845) is a bill that would extend the length of unemployment benefitsto cover another three months, until March 31, 2014. The three-month extension would cost $6.4 billion. [1]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.-D) has called for the unemployment programs introduced under the March 2020 CARES Act to be extended through January 2022. AOC told viewers during a virtual town...
New Jersey’s beleaguered unemployment system has made strides since the jobless rate soared to its highest level in 40 years during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a report released Wednesday found ...
Between May 2023 and May 2024, the private sector in New Jersey grew by 69,000 jobs, though the unemployment rate rose to 4.6% from 4.2%. Most of those were in lower-paying jobs like restaurants ...
The unemployment insurance program is a benefit for workers who have lost their jobs. The maximum duration of benefits has increased from 26 to 99 weeks in some states. Unemployment extensions across the U.S. are typically not a concern due to stringent policies that state unemployment agencies have enacted in recent years.
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.
Robert Asaro-Angelo labor leader and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development at the daily briefing in Trenton NJ on 5/7/2020
Unemployment rate by jurisdiction. Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [ 4] and Puerto Rico [ 5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but ...