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In late 2021, New Jersey was tapped as one of two states participating in a federal pilot program to modernize and improve the federal unemployment system starting early in 2022.
New Jersey's latest unemployment rate is still a far cry from the 15.4% unemployment seen in May 2020 during the COVID-19 business closures, which itself was New Jersey's highest unemployment rate ...
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
Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia governor's race, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City. November 8 – Congress passes legislation to raise the minimum wage from $3.35 to $4.25 an hour by April 1991. Bush signs this bill on November 17.
In the United States in 2016, women made up 9.8% of the incarcerated population in adult prisons and jails. [ 12][ 13] Comparing English-speaking developed countries; [ 9] the overall incarceration rate in the US was 531 per 100,000 population of all ages in 2021, [ 12] the incarceration rate of Canada was 85 per 100,000 in 2020, [ 14] England ...
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.
Despite New Jersey’s unemployment rate hike, by the end of November 2023 the state counted some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, meaning the number of payroll ...
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 ...