The state’s 5 percent unemployment rate is the nation’s third-worst; its Black unemployment rate is second-worst. …Last year, more than 140,000 government workers and retirees in Illinois received more than $100,000 in salaries or pensions. …its unfunded state pensions liability has, ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois officials say the state's unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent in December.
CHICAGO (CBS)-- Arsons, bomb threats, and vandalism – we have been asking for months, and now for the first time, we are learning about thecrimeskeeping Illinois unemployment offices closed. Jordan Abudayyeh, press secretary for Gov. JB Pritzker's office, said in a statement that more t...
Lax lending practices, a lack of oversight and regulation, and widespread corporate malfeasance led to double-digit unemployment rates, a collapse in home prices, the evaporation of more than half the stock market's value, and the disappearance of nearly $15 trillion in household wealth. It was...
Over the course of five years, the bill was able to offer almost $4 billion from its unemployment compensation program to nearly 9 million veterans. [Pictured: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill in the Oval Office on June 22, 1944.] 1945: War Brides Act Sunday Truth /...
"We look at the status of the economy in our country – we're the top economy in the world. We've made more progress than any other country after the pandemic. Unemployment is around and under 4 percent, and has been that way now for more than two years straight, and we survived th...
Over the course of five years, the bill was able to offer almost $4 billion from its unemployment compensation program to nearly 9 million veterans. [Pictured: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill in the Oval Office on June 22, 1944.] 1945: War Brides Act Sunday Truth /...
Lax lending practices, a lack of oversight and regulation, and widespread corporate malfeasance led to double-digit unemployment rates, a collapse in home prices, the evaporation of more than half the stock market's value, and the disappearance of nearly $15 trillion in household wealth. It was...
DEVASTATING STATS -- “Nearly half of young black men in Chicago out of work, out of school: report,” by Chicago Tribune’s Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz:“Nearly half of young black men in Chicago are neither in school nor working, ...
Over the course of five years, the bill was able to offer almost $4 billion from its unemployment compensation program to nearly 9 million veterans. [Pictured: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill in the Oval Office on June 22, 1944.] 1945: War Brides Act Sunday Truth /...