"The fact is that the unemployment rate is half of what it was about a year ago. More people have jobs, more people are buying goods, that's increasing demand. That's a good thing.

Doug Ducey (R) rescinded an executive order issued last year that waived the requirement for Arizonans to prove they are actively looking for a job in order to receive unemployment benefits.

Overall, the unemployment rate throughout California dropped to 8.2 percent in November, its lowest number since March. The state’s unemployment rate has been steadily decreasing for the past six months.

“So we've got to be very cautious, and we’ve got to be very considered and try to drive that unemployment rate down.”

An article on 163.com listed the youth unemployment rate of those 16 to 20 in the United States to be 9.5 percent, the unemployment rate among young people under the age of 24 in Japan was 3.8 percent last month; in Taiwan in March, the unemployment rate

However, some people believe the term is just another way of saying “unemployment.” 

The numbers have, however, improved since a record of nearly 6.9 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in March last year when the pandemic first hit U.S. shores. Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. (Courtesy of U.S.

Foreign companies leaving in large numbers have also increased the tide of China’s unemployment.

Inmates got away with receiving large amounts of unemployment benefits through backlogging unemployment records to the start of the pandemic unemployment insurance program in March 2020.

“If you’re receiving unemployment benefits and you’re offered a suitable job, you can’t refuse that job and just keep getting unemployment benefits,” the president said last week. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The EDD has sent out $113 billion in unemployment benefits since March, when the CCP virus pandemic hit California.

President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan included provisions for a $300 weekly federal boost to unemployment benefits—in addition to state unemployment payouts—which is scheduled to lapse in September.

Economists have penciled in about 85,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate of 4.3 percent.

According to Ivey's office, she is ending the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation that provides $300 per week, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance that provides benefits for individuals who typically don't qualify for unemployment, the Pandemic

The unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent from 6 percent in March.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge on Saturday blocked the state from ending its participation in several pandemic-related unemployment programs, including the $300-per-week unemployment checks that Republicans say are keeping people out of work.

Thursday's report also showed that the number of people who are receiving regular state unemployment aid fell 125,000 to 5.1 million. And fewer people were on extended unemployment benefit programs.

Job growth totaled 115,000 in April—beating market estimates—and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.3 percent.

Instead, the unemployment rate was slightly higher than the previous month.

"The losses covered all aspects of the economy, from personal finances to prospects for the economy, including inflation and unemployment," Richard Curtin, the survey director, said in a statement.

New York healthcare workers and teachers who don’t want the COVID-19 vaccine will not only lose their jobs but could also be unable to get unemployment benefits.

In the face of business hiring difficulties, some two dozen states have moved to end early their participation in the extended federal unemployment programs.

The most recent state-level unemployment report addressed data from a survey taken during the week including Aug. 11, when the unemployment rate fell to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent the previous month.

The weekly boost to state unemployment benefits was part of the third Trump-era pandemic stimulus package.

Steve Sisolak to stop accepting federal unemployment benefits in a letter it released on Thursday.

NDP parliamentary leader Don Davies told reporters on June 2 that there are “serious pressing issues" with AI, including “the mass unemployment that it is capable of producing.”

Iowa lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that will allow workers to receive unemployment benefits if they lose their job due to refusing to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Florida, for example, is ending the $300 supplement but maintaining its participation in other federal programs—Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation—which all expire

Besides blue states having, in general, the highest unemployment rates in December 2020, they also had the highest over-the-year growth in unemployment, the report shows.

Youth unemployment rose to 14.3 percent in April, Statistics Canada said. That's hovering close to 14.7 percent in September 2025, the highest level of youth unemployment in 15 years outside the COVID-19 pandemic period.