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What\'s the Maximum Weekly Unemployment Benefit?
If you're recently unemployed, you may be wondering what the maximum weekly amount of money that you may be getting from the government. Fortunately, MSN Money published a comparison of how much your UI benefits could be... Note: The amount you g...
Disappearing Jobs
A hat tip to the the Great Depression of 2006 blog for posting a link to this video graphic that shows the US unemployment by county for the trailing 12 month average from 2007 to the present.Latoya Egwuekwe is the creator of the multimedia graphic t...
How Many Weeks of Unemployment Insurance Do I get?
cnn has published data that shows how many weeks of UI benefits unemployed workers are eligable to receive. Wyoming gets the least amount of weeks (26 weeks), and a multitude of states are eligable for Tier 2 or Tier 3 benefits that could bring bene...
15 States have borrowed Federal Funds to pay UI benefits
Click for a Larger ImageAccording to Data from May, 2009---14 states have borrowings from the federal government for funding of their depleted unemployment insurance funds---and in the coming months several more states will be added to the list.Michi...
New Jersey's Unemployment Rate is 8.3% in March 2009
Click Image for a Larger ChartToday Bloomberg reported that New Jersey's unemployment rate in March 2009 was 8.3% .Of Course the bad news is that the number of jobless workers in the Garden State continues to increase, the good news however is (1) N...
New Jersey's Unemployment Rate surges past 8%
According to the Philly Business Journal New Jersey's unemployment rate jumped to 8.2% in February 2009---That's up almost a full percentage point from January's 7.3% unemployment rate for the Garden State. ...
Newark New Jersey's Unemployment Rate surpasses 11%
According to Forbes the unemployment rate in Newark, New Jersey reached 11.3% in December 2008.This is significantly higher than the state's 7.1% unemployment rate. ...
New York State adds $2 Billion to its unemployment insurance budget
According to the New York Times the state of New York as increased its budget for paying out unemployment insurance claims by $2 Billion... Now the Budget is $5 Billion/year vs $3 Billion/year.This is because there is now 420,000+ New Yorkers colle...
