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May 22, 2025

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Audit reveals $7.8M in late unemployment payments

December 5, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — A new state audit says $7.8 million in first unemployment benefits did not go out in a timely manner between Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023. The report by the North Carolina […]

Article

US employers are hiring briskly even in face of rate hikes 

November 10, 2022 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s employers kept hiring vigorously in October, adding 261,000 positions, a sign that as Election Day was nearing, the economy remained a picture of both solid job growth and painful inflation.  Friday’s […]

State Treasurer Dale Folwell
Article

Folwell says unemployment, labor pool still a crisis

October 14, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — State Treasurer Dale Folwell expressed concern about the employment crisis in the state and across the country due to a shrinking labor pool at a recent media availability. Folwell cited state and federal […]

Article

US unemployment claims rise third straight week to 362,000

September 30, 2021 Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the third straight week, a sign that the highly contagious delta variant may be slowing a recovery in the job market. Claims […]

Opinion

JOHNSON: The dignity of work

September 21, 2021 Dr. Jessica A. Johnson

As I stopped by a Dollar General store on a Sunday afternoon around the end of August, to my surprise, it was closed, and the sign posted on the front door had a frantic call […]

Article

Amazon sweeping up hourly hires in tight job market

September 16, 2021 Joseph Pisani and Michelle Chapman, Associated Press

Amazon wants to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers and said Tuesday that it is paying new hires an average of $18 an hour in a tight job market as more people shop online. Competition […]

Article

US jobless claims rise by 4,000 to 353,000

August 26, 2021 Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the first time in five weeks even though the economy and job market have been recovering briskly from the coronavirus pandemic. Jobless […]

Opinion

Editorial Cartoon – Jobs

August 22, 2021 admin
State Treasurer Dale Folwell
Article

Federal unemployment subsidy will end next month

August 4, 2021 Matt Mercer

RALEIGH — At the Aug. 3 meeting of the North Carolina Council of State, Gov. Roy Cooper indicated that state unemployment benefits will return to normal levels following the end of the federal unemployment subsidy. […]

Article

US jobless claims tick up to 412,000

June 18, 2021 Paul Wiseman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week for the first time since April despite widespread evidence that the economy and the job market are rebounding steadily from the […]

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