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What Is A Short-Term Disability Insurance And How It Works?

It is estimated that about 5% of American workers experience a short term disability due to various reasons, including pregnancy, illness, or injury. A disability may lead to a loss in income, thereby financial crisis. Fortunately, a Short-Term Disability insurance program can replace your lost income and provide you financial support while you take a break from your work to recover from illness or injury.   What Is A Short-Term Disability … Read more

Kansas Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.3 Percent in April

Kansas businesses, mainly construction, added 16,000 jobs in April. Out of eleven industries, eight of them have shown growth and that has been very encouraging for all the investors. The construction sector added 6,100 jobs after a long gap. Professional and business services added 4,200 jobs, with most of them coming from administrative and support services. As per the report from the  Kansas Department of labor, the Kansas unemployment rate … Read more

Colorado unemployment rate rises to 8%

The unemployment rate of Colorado increased to 8% in April. This happened in spite of the addition of 9,600 jobs in the same month. Don Mares, the executive director of state Department of Labor and Employment, said “ the state is now seeing thousands of formerly discouraged job seekers who had abandoned their job search renewing their efforts. That influx of workers caused Colorado unemployment rate to bump up in … Read more

Illinois Unemployment Rate Shows a Slight Dip

The unemployment rate of Illinois declined slightly to 11.2 percent in April. The Government contributed to the job growth by adding jobs for the temporary Census 2010 positions. “However, as jobs are created and people re-enter the workforce encouraged about their ability to find a job, the unemployment rate might fluctuate for several months before stabilizing,” Director Maureen O’Donnell of Illinois Department of Employment Security said in a news release … Read more

Missouri unemployment rate declines

The Missouri unemployment rate dropped for the first time in this year. The statistics say that Missouri’s jobless rate was 9.4 percent in April, down from 9.5 percent in March but still higher than the 9.1 percent rate of April 2009. The state’s April rate was lower than the national rate of 9.9 percent, which increased 0.2 percent from the month before. The state’s total work force was 2.67 million … Read more

South Carolina unemployment rate edges down to 11.6%

As per the data released by the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, the unemployment rate of South Carolina has edged down from 12.2 percent to 11.6 percent. Currently, it is the sixth highest in the nation in terms of unemployment. This happened in spite of the labor force shrinking by 6,200 positions in April. However, the unemployment rate of the state remains higher than that of the nation, … Read more

Illinois Still Caught In Unemployment Crisis

Illinois has the country’s second highest unemployment rate first being Nevada. At 9.3 percent, it is two percent higher than the national average of 7.5 percent. The US is on its way to economic recovery but some states are still lagging in terms of fixing its unemployment rate. The number of Illinois workers who have been unemployed for more than six months continue to push records higher, according to a … Read more

Decline in the US Unemployment Aid Applications Indicating Job Growth

After a long period of stagnation now comes a ray of hope for the unemployed. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to 340,000 last week from 363,000, a level indicating visible job growth in recent quarters. This is lower than the median estimate of 345,000 predicted by 50 economists in a survey by Bloomberg News. A spokesman for the Labor Department said that there was nothing special … Read more

Utah Unemployment Rate

After the economic downfall, Utah has been showing some signs of improvement in the job sector. As per reports, Utah’s 0.9 employment contraction shows improvement compared to that of the previous month. There has been hiring in the sectors of temporary employment, retail trade and other sectors recently. The month-to-month figures have been increasing and that is a very encouraging sign. The experts feel that federal stimulus spending, increasing customer … Read more

Illinois SNAP program allows food stamps at restaurants

Restaurant Food

The state of Illinois is participating in the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s Restaurant Meals Program. Launched in DeWitt, Franklin, and Cook counties during the spring of 2022, the program allows some SNAP participants – including the homeless, elderly and disabled – to use their SNAP benefits for hot, prepared food from participating restaurants. This is a key break from traditional program requirements, which historically have limited use of … Read more