New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Robert Asaro-Angelo outlined how a federal funding freeze would hurt the state.

"The unforeseen complication arose running the new Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program while simultaneously running the prior program, which has different payout amounts." NJ State of ...

Nearly 156,000 New Jersey workers filed unemployment claims last week as the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak begins to take hold, according to new data from the state Department of ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New Jersey dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

Rhode Island had the largest year-over-year increase in its NSA estimated construction unemployment rate (up 4%) among the ...

New Jersey is increasing the maximum weekly unemployment benefits by $21 starting on Jan. 1, 2025, the state Labor Department announced Tuesday. There also will be changes in the taxable wage base ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- More Americans are out of work than there were this time last year, with certain states seeing unemployment rates well above the national average. The U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

NJ State of the State ... to resolve the issues associated with these payments," the agency said. Regular unemployment payments should not be affected, the agency said, and workers should ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New Jersey dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs ...