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Getting unemployment benefits1
Reduce unemployment2
  • A bill introduced recently in the Ohio House would reduce unemployment benefits in Ohio - and the ability of workers to qualify for them - so that Ohio's unemployment program would become among the most restrictive in the United States. (policymattersohio.org)
  • That might reduce unemployment in the short-term, but at the expense of entrenching higher levels of under-employment (people lacking the paid working hours they need). (edu.au)
Applying for unemployment benefits2
  • WASHINGTON - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level since mid-November. (9news.com)
  • The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell below 200,000, more evidence that the job market remains strong in the aftermath of last year's coronavirus recession. (scrippsnews.com)
Applications for unemployment benefits2
  • Last week, the number of applications for unemployment benefits, though declining for the past few weeks, remained at an elevated 779,000. (ibj.com)
  • Weekly applications for unemployment benefits declined 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 402,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. (thedailyrecord.com)
Compensation8
  • House Bill 394 would slash the maximum number of weeks of unemployment compensation benefits from 26 to between 12 and 20. (policymattersohio.org)
  • States already make an individualized inquiry into whether an applicant is available and able to work - a requirement to receive unemployment compensation - despite claiming or receiving disability benefits. (policymattersohio.org)
  • Given that individuals on disability are encouraged to work, those who are able to do so and then become involuntarily unemployed should not be automatically barred from unemployment compensation. (policymattersohio.org)
  • Minnesota is the only state we have found that explicitly says that Social Security disability payments can make you ineligible for unemployment compensation. (policymattersohio.org)
  • At the same time Ohio's General Assembly passed the Shared Work bill discussed here , the General Assembly enacted a new penalty provision for employers that fail to timely or adequately respond to unemployment compensation information requests from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS). (bricker.com)
  • The U.S. pay czar on Thursday slashed cash compensation for the top earners at seven companies that received massive taxpayer bailouts, while allowing for some increases to retain key talent. (ibtimes.com)
  • With the U.S. unemployment rate nearing 10 percent, executive compensation has been drawing widespread fire. (ibtimes.com)
  • A recession looms with sweeping layoffs, unemployment compensation surging, and social welfare benefits soaring. (vdare.com)
20201
  • Altogether, 1.7 million Americans were collecting traditional unemployment aid the week that ended Dec. 18, lowest since March 2020 and down by 140,000 from the week before. (scrippsnews.com)
Rate17
  • Right now, based on our unemployment rate, it would allow a maximum of just 12 weeks of benefits - last in the country, tied only with North Carolina. (policymattersohio.org)
  • This quarter's unemployment rate is now the lowest rate recorded since the HLFS series began in 1986," StatsNZ senior manager Becky Collett said. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • PALATINE, Ill. - The State of Illinois announced a 20-week extension of unemployment benefits because of the continued high unemployment rate. (wgntv.com)
  • [vi] The Unemployment Rate has been at or below 5 percent since August of 2015. (ritholtz.com)
  • [viii] Over the last 24 months of Obama's second term, the Unemployment Rate has averaged 5.0 percent. (ritholtz.com)
  • Between 2008 and 2009 Canada's unemployment rate jumped from 6.2 per cent to 8.4 per cent. (cbc.ca)
  • In 2006, Canada's unemployment rate stood at 6.3 per cent - fourth-best among the G7. (cbc.ca)
  • Black unemployment remains stubbornly high, at 13.1 percent in October 2013 , more than double the rate for Whites. (wolbbaltimore.com)
  • House Republicans must think the job market is improving rapidly and that the Congressional Budget Office is way off base in projecting that the unemployment rate will average 8.7 percent in 2011 and 2012. (cbpp.org)
  • In states with an unemployment rate of 6 percent or higher, there would be up to another 13 weeks available, but in most of them that would be it. (cbpp.org)
  • The unemployment rate for January fell sharply, from 6.7% to 6.3%, the Labor Department said Friday. (ibj.com)
  • for Bristol West, Stephen Williams has warned that this could mean that the real rate at which unemployment is rising is being hidden. (bristolwest-libdems.org.uk)
  • We expanded the Child Tax Credit, which slashed child poverty by over 40 percent among Latinos to the lowest rate on record. (whitehouse.gov)
  • AP: …Are there downsides to a low unemployment rate? (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • Like the rest of the country, Hawaii has an aging population, and its unemployment rate has been held down in part by retiring baby boomers. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • This will send the national unemployment rate, already 10.3%, soaring and provide more grist for Mr Tudor's mill. (youdao.com)
  • The unemployment rate has fallen to 4.2%, close to what economists consider full employment. (scrippsnews.com)
Budgets1
  • The length of time unemployment benefit can be claimed was slashed, healthcare and welfare budgets cut and state pensions capped. (wsws.org)
Benefits12
  • Restore the reduction (or offset) of weekly unemployment benefits when an otherwise eligible candidate is receiving Social Security retirement benefits. (policymattersohio.org)
  • Ohio would be in the only state in the nation that deducts one dollar of unemployment benefits for each dollar of Social Security retirement received. (policymattersohio.org)
  • Disqualify applicants for unemployment benefits for violating the terms of their employee handbook. (policymattersohio.org)
  • Under the penalty provision, which takes effect in the fall of 2013, when an employer demonstrates a pattern of failing to timely or adequately respond to ODJFS, that employer's account will no longer be credited in situations where ODJFS discovers that it erroneously paid unemployment benefits to an unemployed worker due to that employer's untimely or inadequate response. (bricker.com)
  • Alexis Byrd, who is also seeking unemployment benefits, said. (wgntv.com)
  • It was converted into 11 weeks of extended unemployment programs for gig workers and freelancers, as well as extended benefits, and a $300/week increase for all UI programs. (prospect.org)
  • How else can one explain their proposal to slash federal emergency unemployment insurance (UI) benefits? (cbpp.org)
  • The House Republican proposal - part of their larger proposal to extend the payroll tax cut and UI benefits - would slash, by 40, the number of weeks potentially available to unemployed workers who are struggling to find a job in some states that were hit the hardest by the jobs slump (see map). (cbpp.org)
  • The hardships that millions of Americans are suffering trends have fueled President Joe Biden's push for a $1.9 trillion rescue aid package, which could provide $1,400 checks for most U.S. individuals and a $400 weekly unemployment payment on top of state benefits. (ibj.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a hopeful sign that the job market might be picking up. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped slightly last week, though not by enough to suggest that hiring is picking up. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • Head Start centers have lost slots for children, unemployment benefits have been cut and Section 8 housing assistance has been slashed. (opednews.com)
Workers2
  • Require that laid-off workers must earn wages in at least three of the four calendar quarters in the prior year to have a valid unemployment claim. (policymattersohio.org)
  • FLORIDO: The Hawaii Workers Center recently wrote to Governor Josh Green asking him to speed up unemployment payments and to take other steps to help workers. (wvik.org)
Jobs6
  • SHAPIRO: This morning, the government released its closely watched monthly unemployment report, and it says employers slashed 524,000 jobs from their payrolls in December. (kzyx.org)
  • All told in 2008, more than two and a half million jobs were cut from payrolls, and unemployment now stands at 7.2 percent. (kzyx.org)
  • Jobs too were slashed. (cbc.ca)
  • Most of the drop in unemployment occurred because some people out of work found jobs, while others stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed. (ibj.com)
  • When employers were slashing jobs, the housing market froze up. (wgbh.org)
  • Far from damaging economies or increasing unemployment, these reductions in the size and scope of government boosted GDP, improved services, and created jobs. (reason.com)
20212
  • The labour market continued to show the tightness we saw in the September 2021 quarter, with both unemployment and underutilisation rates remaining low. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • Türkiye began easing rates in 2021 in an effort to support economic growth, boost exports and investment, and fight unemployment. (rt.com)
Recession1
  • It is likely that by next year, more than a million people will be on unemployment payments for over a year - three times the peak in long-term unemployment after the early-90s recession. (edu.au)
Sharply1
  • Japanese industrial production fell a larger-than-expected 9.6 per cent and unemployment rose sharply to 4.4 per cent in December. (blogspot.com)
Peak1
  • When economic activity plunged, unemployment shot up - to a peak of 10 percent in October 2009. (wgbh.org)
Congress1
  • Knocking the current thirst among right-wing lawmakers to slash spending, he said, "The worst thing for Congress to do is to do nothing, and to continue this sort of appetite for cutting investments in people. (wolbbaltimore.com)
Percent1
Labor Department2
Claims1
Week1
  • Unemployment support will be slashed by $300 this week. (edu.au)
Weekly1
Economy1
  • But the Keynesians who were gaining prominence in the economics profession warned that a rapid decline in government spending and the size of the public work force would produce, in the late economist Paul Samuelson's words, "the greatest period of unemployment and dislocation which any economy has ever faced. (reason.com)
Boost1
  • An artificial cap placed on the total cost limited the spending: the checks and the unemployment boost is half of its equivalent in the CARES Act. (prospect.org)
High1
Situations1
People3
  • After a weekend full of impasses and breakthroughs, today a COVID relief bill will pass, nearly nine months after the last one, nearly five months after the boosted unemployment from the last one expired, a little over eight months after the first people got government checks to deal with the economic pain. (prospect.org)
  • The Tories were damaged by the realisation that people were being pushed off the unemployment roll and onto incapacity benefit to massage down the numbers. (bristolwest-libdems.org.uk)
  • More importantly, the hiring credit could prompt employers to take on people they might not otherwise have considered - those facing prolonged unemployment. (edu.au)
Interest rates1
  • The results reported in the UN study cast doubt about the country's aim to tackle inflation by slashing interest rates. (rt.com)
Fell3
  • Unemployment fell in the December quarter to 3.2 per cent, the lowest since modern records began in 1986. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • WASHINGTON - Unemployment rates fell in about three-quarters of large U.S. cities in September, a sign that the nation's modest job gains that month occurred across most of the country. (thedailyrecord.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Unemployment rates fell in half of U.S. states last month, a sign that September's pickup in hiring was felt around the country. (thedailyrecord.com)
Cuts2
  • The biggest cuts would come in states with the highest unemployment rates. (cbpp.org)
  • With cuts in living standards, unemployment and stagnant demand, the capitalists cannot increase the prices of their goods as would normally occur in a boom. (marxist.com)
State1
  • New Zealand, Canada, and the postwar United States all managed to slash the state on a grand scale. (reason.com)
Weeks1
Hours2
  • The company slashed his hours in half. (wgntv.com)
  • They've laid off staff or slashed hours. (wvik.org)
Insurance2
Government3
  • The gap between supporters and opponents of UK entry to the single currency would be slashed if the Government took a strong lead in promoting entry, according to a poll published today by the GMB. (ipsos.com)
  • said "The claimant count has now risen for the ninth month in a row and the Government are under pressure to keep unemployment as low as possible. (bristolwest-libdems.org.uk)
  • The federal government would have to slash its spending, leading to an economic downturn comparable to that in 2007-2008. (ruralhome.org)
Rose1
  • But companies ordered more goods, factories slashed their stockpiles and auto sales rose. (thedailyrecord.com)
Cash1
  • ANNAPOLIS - They line up before the doors open, needing help in areas they never imagined - cash assistance, unemployment, food stamps. (thedailyrecord.com)
Assistance1
  • It just gets frustrating that you're trying to get some assistance through unemployment it seems like as many times I've called they haven't taken their time to call me," Perricone said. (wgntv.com)
Year1