Pennsylvania's Unemployment Reaches 6% In March
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose by 1.3% in March, reaching 6%.
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Pennsylvania's unemployment rate rose by 1.3% in March, reaching 6%.
Nearly 22 million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits in the last month.
The unemployment headaches entered a fourth week Monday for people across the state.
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry says its unemployment compensation continued claims system is currently down.
Some extra money is coming to those on unemployment.
Workers who have lost their jobs paint a dire picture while still waiting for unemployment benefits.
Nearly 700,000 people in Ohio filed for unemployment in the last three weeks as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shake the economy.
Roughly 1-in-10 workers have lost their job in just the past three weeks.
Last week's claims vaulted Pennsylvania past 1 million jobless claims since the coronavirus began taking a severe toll on the economy in mid-March.
For a second straight week, a record number of Americans applied for unemployment benefits.
Today we got a clearer idea of how many people across Pennsylvania have lost their jobs during this pandemic.
The number of jobless claims in the United States hit 3.3 million, quadrupling the previous record from 1982.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits surged last week by 70,000.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate ticked up in October for the second straight month, even as payrolls and the labor force hit record highs.
The job report for the month of April with unemployment at a record low in the state.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped in February to the lowest rate since 1976, which is as far back as the state's records go.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped in January to a nearly two-decade low, as the pool of job-seekers grew and payrolls shrank slightly.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in September, the lowest level since December 1969.
Pennsylvania's payrolls crept to another record high in April, while the unemployment rate inched down to a post-recession low as the labor pool shrank.
According to a new report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employers were advertising openings for 6.55 million positions in March. The May 8 release adds that 6.59 million Americans were unemployed at that time
US employers went on a hiring binge last month, adding 313,000 jobs, the most since July 2016, and drawing hundreds of thousands of people into the job market.
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate dropped in October to a new post-recession low, although the labor force, employment and payrolls all shrank during the month.
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Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will sign legislation to flush $15 million into a chaotic state unemployment compensation system that's forcing the jobless to wait longer to get questions answered or benefits checks.
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A tractor-trailer crossed the median on I-79 and crashed into a van, causing the closure.
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A nighttime crash during the week of Christmas is now causing major traffic backups every afternoon on Interstate 79.
A U-Haul truck made its way onto the tracks at Station Square early Friday morning.
Mayor Corey O'Connor promised to get more families into homes in the city, and that's what the "Clean and Lien" campaign aims to do.
A tractor-trailer crossed the median on I-79 and crashed into a van, causing the closure.
Friday kicks off the weekend with some warmer temperatures, but they will not last long.
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The northbound lanes of Interstate 79 near the Warrendale exit are closed after a tractor trailer crash.
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