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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.
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 ...
The Garden State’s unemployment rate went from 3.3 to 4.7, meaning that the number of people in the state that don’t have a job and are looking for one is 4.7% of the state’s labor force.
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 ...
A comical number of KC special teams mistakes helped the Colts secure their much-needed first win of the season last week, but this is an Indy offense that ranks dead last in the NFL in EPA/play ...
The New Jersey Civil Service Commission is an independent body within the New Jersey state government under the auspices of the department. Initially constituted in the late-1940s, pursuant to P.L. 1948, c.446, as the Department of Labor and Industry, the department is one of 16 executive branch departments in New Jersey state government.
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.
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.