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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 ...
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 ...
In 2023 N.J. had some 63,000 filled job positions that it didn’t have a year ago, but that wasn't enough to keep the unemployment rate from hiking. In 2023, New Jersey saw the highest increase ...
Also in 1937, New York passed a minimum wage law protecting women and minors. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage standard and a forty hour work week, and in this same year, an amendment to the New York State Constitution established a "Bill of Rights" for working people. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ...
U.S. states by net employment rate (% of population 16 and over) 2022 [1] National rank State Employment rate in % (total population) Annual change (%) (=rise in employment) 1 Nebraska: 68.1 0.5 2 North Dakota: 67.8 1.3 — District of Columbia: 67.4 3.0 3 Utah: 67.1 1.1 4 South Dakota: 66.8 0.0 5 Colorado: 66.3 1.9 Iowa: 66.3 1.5 Minnesota: 66 ...
The unemployment rate (U-3), measured as the number of persons unemployed divided by the civilian labor force, rose from 5.0% in December 2007 to peak at 10.0% in October 2009, before steadily falling to 4.7% by December 2016 and then to 3.5% by December 2019. [ 40] By August 2023, it reached 3.8 percent.
In California, for instance, the state unemployment rate hit 5.3% in February, up 0.8% from a year ago and the highest in the nation. New Jersey's unemployment rate hit 4.8% in February, also up 0.8%.
The U.S. unemployment rate by education level The line chart shows the long-term decline in labor force participation for males of prime-working age (25–54 years), based on educational attainment. [36] Workers with higher levels of education face considerably lower rates of unemployment.