Unemployment Archives

April 16, 2021 7:59 pm A. J. Bayatpour

Officials at the Department of Workforce Development said this week they’re confident they will clear the list of claims waiting for a decision…

April 15, 2021 2:57 pm Associated Press

A new report shows Wisconsin’s unemployment rate held steady at 3.8% in March, far below the national rate of 6%.…

April 15, 2021 7:46 am Associated Press

The Labor Department said Thursday that applications plummeted 193,000 from a revised 769,000 a week…

April 8, 2021 8:19 am Associated Press

The Labor Department said Thursday that applications increased by 16,000 from 728,000 a week earlier.…

April 2, 2021 8:36 am Associated Press

America’s employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is…

April 1, 2021 10:41 pm CNN

The Internal Revenue Service plans to help people who filed for unemployment last year and already filed their…

March 30, 2021 11:14 am JT Cestkowski

Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites will soon be able to access additional unemployment benefits as the state says it has finished work needed to…

March 26, 2021 10:06 pm A. J. Bayatpour

The first couple months of 2020 brought excitement for Michael Freeland. Having left a previous job to become an independent contractor, Freeland…

March 9, 2021 5:12 pm Emily Friese

The Directory of Workforce Services provides a description of available workforce services and contact information to connect to services in each…

March 5, 2021 4:31 pm WKOW

The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) begins issuing Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) payments to thousands of people…

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