(Salt Lake City, UT) — Initial filings for unemployment are on the rise across Utah. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which says that for the week ending December 7th, more than 24-hundred initial filings for unemployment were filed across the state. The week prior, there were nearly […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Initial filings for unemployment are declining across Utah. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which says that for the week ending November 30th, nearly 18-hundred initial filings were made across Utah. That number is down by more than 300 filings compared to the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Initial filings for unemployment are on the rise across Utah. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Labor, which says that for the week ending November 16th, more than 19-hundred new filings for unemployment were submitted. That number is up from just over 13-hundred the […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Unemployment claims rose to begin November in Utah. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the number of jobless claims filed topped 15-hundred in the week ending on November 2nd. This was an increase of almost 50 from the week prior. Although the increase in […]
(Washington, DC) — The U.S. Department of Labor says initial filings for unemployment benefits in Utah dropped last week. New jobless claims fell to 1,144 in the week ending March 9th. That statistic is down from the 1,235 filings the week before. Oregon saw the largest percentage increase in weekly […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s unemployment rate ticked up slightly in June but employment grew in all but one industry. More than one-point-seven million Utahns had jobs in June, a nearly three-percent increase over June of last year, while the unemployment rate was two-point-four percent, up from two-point-three percent […]
SALT LAKE CITY-Thursday, the Utah Division of Unemployment Insurance reported 4,847 new claims for benefits were submitted for the week of June 7-13. This is down nearly 12 percent from 5,452 claims the previous week. The state paid out $24.9 million in traditional unemployment benefits along with $47.1 million in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1.5 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, a historically high number, even as the economy increasingly reopens and employers bring some people back to work. The latest figure released Thursday marked the 11th straight weekly decline in applications since they peaked at nearly 7 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Unemployment claims inched back up in Utah last week after eight consecutive weeks of declines as the state experiences a spike in coronavirus cases following the reopening last month of many businesses, show figures released Thursday. Nearly 5,500 people requested unemployment assistance in the week ending […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The number of people requesting unemployment assistance in Utah last week dropped below 5,000 for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States. But the figure remained at a rate far higher than normal, according to figures released Thursday. Utah […]
