unemployment

Discover why people are flocking to Utah's southern region while the state's capital city faces a decline in population. Find out the factors driving this trend.

The website Stacker.com released a list of the cities in Utah with the highest poverty rates. What defines "Poverty"? The US Census Bureau defines Poverty as "if a family’s total income is less than the family’s threshold." Here's a list of th...

New jobless claims in Utah continue to fall.  The Department of Workforce Services reported nearly 51-hundred new claims last week, with 81-thousand claims continued.  DWS says the number of new unemployment claims has fallen by 28-percent over the past two weeks.  ...

The number of Utahns filing for unemployment has dropped off for the eighth straight week.  New numbers from the Department of Workforce Services shows nearly five-thousand people filed new jobless claims last week.  In all, more than 193-thousand Utahns have reported layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts since the coronavirus began in mid-March.  Abo ...

More Utahns filed for unemployment last week, even as coronavirus restrictions begin to ease in the state.  New numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor show 62-hundred people filed initial claims.  More than 180-thousand Utahns have now reported job losses since Mid-March. ...

More Utahns filed for unemployment benefits as the economy continues to reel from the coronavirus pandemic.  Numbers from the Department of Workforce services show another 71-hundred Utahns filed initial claims last week.  Since the pandemic began, nearly 174-thousand people have filed for unemployment in the state. ...

Officials confirm that new unemployment filings rose by over one-thousand-percent. The Utah Department of Workforce Services says over a third of the new filings are from workers who identified as part of food preparation and service industry ...