(Salt Lake City, UT) — Utah’s unemployment rate has hit a new low. The state Department of Workforce Services announced Friday that April’s estimated unemployment is one-point-nine percent. That’s down from two-percent in April. Approximately 33-thousand Utahns were unemployed last month. Governor Cox praised the new numbers in a tweet, […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) – Utah’s unemployment rate continues to fall. Numbers from the Department of Workforce Services shows that just two-percent of all eligible workers had no job in March. That number is down from two-point-one-percent in February. The national unemployment rate currently sits at three-point-six-percent.
(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state of Utah continues to have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. The Department of Workforce Services announced yesterday that the state’s unemployment rate dropped to two-point-two-percent in January. The seasonally-adjusted rate was down slightly from December’s numbers. The department’s chief […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — Governor Cox is celebrating Utah’s economy after the state set a new record low for unemployment. The Utah Department of Workforce Services says just over 34-thousand Utahns were unemployed last month. The two-point-one-percent unemployment rate is the lowest ever recorded in the state. Governor Cox […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will terminate its participation in the federal government’s pandemic-related unemployment assistance program. Utah is the latest of several states ending the $300 federal benefit paid on top of state benefits. Gov. Spencer Cox said Wednesday that those extra federal benefits will end in Utah […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New data shows nearly 16% of Utah women have withdrawn in some way from the workplace during the coronavirus pandemic. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that figure represents thousands and thousands of women. The survey found women commonly said they left jobs because their employer […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Federal unemployment aid that has helped avert financial ruin for millions of Americans is expiring in Utah and elsewhere on Saturday, leaving many residents unsure of how they’ll pay their bills as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rise. Since early in the pandemic, the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New figures show unemployment claims in Utah are settling into levels that are much lower than the pandemic peak in early April but remain historically high. Nearly 4,900 people requested unemployment assistance in the week ending June 13. That was the fourth consecutive week the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New figures show unemployment claims inched back up in Utah last week after eight consecutive weeks of declines as the state experiences a spike in coronavirus cases following the reopening last month of many businesses. State numbers released Thursday show nearly 5,500 people requested unemployment […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — New figures show the number of people requesting unemployment assistance in Utah last week dropped below 5,000 for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the United States but remained at a rate far higher than normal. Utah officials said Thursday that […]
