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Tag: jobless claims

State’s jobless rate falls to lowest point since start of pandemic

State’s jobless rate falls to lowest point since start of pandemic

— July 22, 2022

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois economy added 18,800 jobs during June as the unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent, the lowest it has been since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That…

  • State unemployment falls to 7.1 percent in March

    State unemployment falls to 7.1 percent in March

    — April 15, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – The statewide unemployment rate in Illinois fell three-tenths of a percentage point in March, to 7.1 percent, as the daily count of new COVID-19 cases and the case positivity…

  • Unemployment rates up, jobs down across the state

    Unemployment rates up, jobs down across the state

    — December 28, 2020

    The number of nonfarm jobs decreased over-the-year in all 14 Illinois metropolitan areas in November, according to preliminary data released Dec. 23 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics…

  • Illinois unemployment rate climbs to record in April, highest since 1983

    Illinois unemployment rate climbs to record in April, highest since 1983

    — May 21, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD – The unemployment rate in Illinois reached a staggering 16.4 percent in April, the highest rate recorded since the modern system of tracking joblessness began in 1976,…

  • Another 200,000 Illinoisans file for unemployment claims

    Another 200,000 Illinoisans file for unemployment claims

    — April 10, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD – More than half a million Illinois workers have filed first-time unemployment claims in the four weeks since the COVID-19 outbreak first hit the labor market.  Economists…

  • COVID-19 cases keep rising in Illinois as unemployment claims fall

    COVID-19 cases keep rising in Illinois as unemployment claims fall

    — April 1, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – The state reported 3,526 new confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 Thursday, April 1, the highest one-day total since Feb. 5. That drove the seven-day rolling average…

  • GOP House members urge special session for jobless claim delays, fraud

    GOP House members urge special session for jobless claim delays, fraud

    — December 4, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — Three Republican lawmakers on Friday, Dec. 4, put pressure on Illinois Department of Employment Security officials to answer for the backlog in unemployment claims and…

  • Four-week unemployment claims total in Illinois passes 630,000

    Four-week unemployment claims total in Illinois passes 630,000

    — April 16, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — In the week ending April 11, another 141,049 Illinoisans filed initial unemployment claims, bringing the total number during the latest four weeks of the novel coronavirus…

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