On the same day that the Department of Labor reported that the United States is experiencing its biggest inflation rate increase in four decades, President Joe Biden praised a decline in jobless claims and an increase in pay for American workers. It’s encouraging to see lesser numbers of claims and greater wages for American workers, …
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People are looking to hire workers in the Albany region. They are advertising more. Starting wages have gone up, and sign-on bonuses may be offered too. In September, the unemployment rate in the Hudson Valley was 4.3%. This is the lowest it has been since the pandemic hit. More and more municipalities had an unemployment …
Unemployment is higher in Chautauqua County in September 2021 than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, the state released New York’s latest unemployment rates. One year ago at this time, unemployment was 6.3%. Now it is 4.7%. In September 2019, before the pandemic, the county’s unemployment rate was 3.8%. The county’s labour force has …
A report from the government on state and regional employment data confirms what employers are feeling. In 2010, there were 143,000 people in the tri-county area. That number went down to 129,000 as of August 2016 because of a report from Kinexus Group. The long term, or what will happen in the future, is what …
