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With a total of 3,588,386 eligible workers and 66,182 unemployment insurance claims, this equated to 1.84% of the state's working population. 2024 off to a promising start for Massachusetts workforce
Leadership. The current Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development is Lauren Jones, who was appointed by Governor Maura Healey in January 2023.. Mission. The EOLWD missions is to enhance the quality, diversity and stability of Massachusetts' workforce by making available new opportunities and training, protecting the rights of workers, preventing workplace injuries and illnesses, ensuring ...
Staff reports. April 27, 2024 at 5:11 AM. Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New ...
Here's a look at how weekly unemployment claims changed in Massachusetts last week compared with the week prior.
In 1931, governors from New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut organized an interstate commission on unemployment insurance. In 1932, Wisconsin passed the first public unemployment insurance program in the United States, offering 50% wage compensation for a maximum of 10 weeks, funded through a payroll tax ...
There is ongoing debate among economists regarding the extent to which unemployment is cyclical (i.e., temporary and related to economic cycles, and therefore responsive to stimulus measures that spur demand) or structural (i.e., longer-term and independent of the economic cycle, and therefore requiring process reforms and re-allocation of workers among industries and geographies).
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Massachusetts dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell ...
The unemployment rate of graduates. In 2008, the unemployment rate of graduates was more than 30%. [32] In this year the unemployment rate of graduates from top universities was 10%. [33] In 2009, the employment rate of graduates who had bachelor's degree was in the 88% range.