Unemployment benefits

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tracks the amount of people who have filed for unemployment benefits. It is compiled into the jobless claims report. This can be seen from the graph provided by Business Perspectives (See Appendix: Exhibit A-3). During each recession period, jobless claims would quickly increase. The industries tend to lose revenues from sales and will have to lay off workers to make up for the loss in profit. Some of the companies can go bankrupt which leads to a massive…

In both the 2008 and 2012 elections unemployment was an important topic. No doubt it will again be important in the 2016 elections. The idea of unemployment can strike fear in to people. Working is a basic human instinct. For thousands of years, humans have worked in exchange for food, clothing, shelter, and other commodities. When people lose the ability to work, they often feel they lose the ability to provide for themselves. Keeping people employed is an issue that societies and governments…

instabilities, social, economic and mental problems today. Therefore anti-racist theorists form values that welfare is distributed unevenly due to contextual issues, as 15% of New Zealand’s population is Maori, yet they make up 33% of those on the unemployment benefit (Marie, Fergusson & Boden 2011, 15). These challenges make it more difficult for Maori to enter the…

Job Loss and Unemployment Just last year, over 2.5 million people lost their jobs due to layoffs, quits and workers getting fired. The unemployment rate is now at a steady 4.9 percent; citizens of the United States lose their jobs every day. Layoffs at work can cause it, or it can simply be that one 's boss has fired them. Job loss and unemployment can affect one 's everyday life. Not only does losing a job affect one, but it also affects one’s family. On the contrary, they do have grants for…

the farmers, who they considered to be the backbone of New Zealand’s economy. This ultimately caused a lot of poverty and unemployment amongst the middle and lower classes of New Zealand’s society. On December the 6th 1935 the Labour Party took office with a very unique ideology,…

Unemployment Unemployment occurs when there is more labour demand than labour supply in a society. The unemployment rate is a tool to define the percentage of unemployed people in the labour force who are seeking a job. • Unemployment rate.  • Creation of part time jobs to recover for the losses of full time positions.  • Flat and steady growth of the economy  • More unemployment due to the Canadian recession in the oil and sand industries  • Gain of jobs in August comparison to July.…

contributed to the decline of both consumer and corporate credit. During this period, financial institutions were filing for bankruptcy or they were being bought out, small and medium businesses were closing because banks were wary of lending money, and unemployment…

people suicides a year worldwide because of unemployment. Unemployment is a critical issue in a society, and can cause many problems it and to the unemployed. Unemployment could be related to any person by either being unemployed or knows someone who is. Many people know the feeling of an unemployed person, and how stressed and depressed they are. Unemployment does not only affect the unemployed, but also the people related and around them. Unemployment increases the crime rate, which is very…

Equilibrium unemployment and disequilibrium unemployment are the basic categories of unemployment to apply on the total labor that the whole economy has (Sloman). Equilibrium unemployment is the difference between people that want to take the job they are offered and people that are willing and able to take the job. Disequilibrium unemployment occurs when the aggregate demand for labor is less than the aggregate supply of labor. Recently an analysis conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statics of…

return. New technology could reduce the cost of production and facilitate customers. “With 662 large employers and-and 52 insurance carriers on the Benefit Focus Platform, we’re uniquely positioned to help executives think about technology roadmap when it comes to improving the way they manage benefit” stated Andy Howell the Chief Commercial Officer of Benefit focus. Howell said, “Buyer’s Guide is a product of knowledge, and serves as an extension of our mission to provide people and…