Nearly four-million Texans have filed for unemployment since the pandemic started. The total includes nearly 36-thousand in the week ending December 12th. The state’s unemployment rate is nearly twice what it was at the beginning of 2020. A drop in sales tax revenues, which are the state’s biggest single source of funding, has created a […]
US Claims for Unemployment Aid Hit Lowest Level Since ’69
April 18, 2019 by Leave a Comment
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits dropped to the lowest level in nearly half a century. The Labor Department says claims for jobless aid fell by 5,000 last week to 192,000, lowest since September 1969. The four-week average, which is less volatile, dropped by 6,000 to 201,250, lowest since November 1969. Weekly claims […]
Amazon Effort To Hire 50,000 Falls Short
August 3, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The company is looking to hire 50-thousand people but only 20-thousand showed up to apply on “Amazon Jobs Day.”
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