The Bureau of Labor Standards on Wednesday released inflation numbers for the month of December, and while some trumpeted the…
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The estimated amount of pandemic unemployment compensation paid out to fraudulent claims has risen to $45.6 billion, according to recent…
Maine’s unemployment rate increased in August, rising to 3.1 percent from July’s rate of 2.8 percent. The labor force participation…
Maine’s unemployment rate was 2.8 percent in July, down from 3 percent in June, and averaged 3 percent in the…
According to the Maine Department of Labor (DOL), Maine’s employment rate decreased slightly to 3 percent in June 2022, the…
I completed another plumbing project this past weekend. The toilet in our master bathroom had been leaking for a while.…
Maine’s unemployment rate fell slightly in May, to 3.2 percent from 3.3 percent the previous month. The labor force participation…
At least 20 percent of federal dollars paid out through pandemic-related unemployment programs went to fraudulent and ineligible claims according…
According to a report recently released by WalletHub, Maine has the eighth weakest economy in the nation. WalletHub looked at…
Following an upward revision to March’s jobs numbers, Maine’s unemployment rate was “essentially unchanged” at 3.3 percent in April, according…
In March, Maine’s unemployment rate was 3.6 percent, a decrease from February’s 4 percent unemployment rate. According to the Maine…
Maine’s unemployment rate was 4 percent in February, a small change from January’s rate of 4.1 percent. The number of…
Maine’s unemployment rate was unchanged from December 2021 to January 2022. The unemployment rate remained at 4.1% in January. The…
Maine’s unemployment rate decreased slightly to 4.7% in December 2021, according to a release issued Tuesday by the Maine Department…
For the month of November, Maine’s unemployment rate remained at 4.8%, a number that has largely been unchanged since February.…
Maine’s workforce conditions in October were little changed from September according to new data released by the Department of Labor…
Maine’s unemployment rate remained largely unchanged between August and September. The unemployment rate ticked down slightly, from 4.9% in August…
According to the Maine Department of Labor’s (DOL) Center for Workforce Research and Information, the number of nonfarm payroll jobs…
Despite some improvements to Maine’s economy, the leisure and hospitality industries remain among the slowest to recover from the pandemic.…
On August 6, the Maine Department of Labor (DOL) announced that approximately 7,400 unemployment claimants receiving federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance…
The Maine Department of Labor’s (DOL) Back-to-Work grant program will close applications on Friday, August 6. The program allows employers…
The unemployment rate in Maine remained stuck at 4.8% for the fifth straight month, according to recent report from the…
The government has spent its way into an inflationary mess, which we’ve already felt at the gas pump, among other places. Don’t be surprised if everyday expenses continue to be more costly and your disposable income starts to fall.
If all 300 workers received the $1,500 benefit, the grant program has already paid out $45,000, or 4.5%, of the $10 million available.
A new report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) quotes an analysis from economists who found that states that have…
This study on the nationwide impacts of the historically high UI has simply confirmed what many have been sounding the alarm on for weeks: if you pay people to stay home, they will.
Maine’s Department of Labor currently has no plans to end enhanced employment benefits.
A disappointing new jobs report shows that hiring is down and the unemployment is rate is up, even as wages…
Maine Policy Institute today released a new report that sheds light on the harmful effects of Governor Janet Mills’ economic…
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the website MoneyGeek has been analyzing unemployment in state economies by sector and updating…
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle voiced frustration last Thursday after Department of Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman failed to…
Lawmakers in Augusta have proposed a spate of bills this session in an attempt to mitigate the negative effects of…
In this tight labor market, we must use every tool at our disposal to encourage laid-off workers to search for…
Another pro-employer bill has died at the hands of the divided 127th Legislature. LD 1501, “An Act To Amend the…
The state of Maine, specifically its metro areas of Portland, Lewiston and Bangor, has achieved full employment. Well, at least…
According to a release from the Maine Department of Labor, unemployment claims in Maine have now fallen to their lowest…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s unemployment rate stood at 6.2 percent for the first month of 2014, according to labor statistics released…
AUGUSTA – Maine’s jobless rate dropped to 6.2 percent in the month of December, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL)…
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.3 percent, according to numbers released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.…
“I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly every two-term president, gets to a point…
AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage is touting the latest unemployment figures, which show Maine’s number of jobless at…
YORK – He totaled a company van and subsequently failed a drug test, but according to workers at the Maine…
AUGUSTA – Due to “inadequate internal control procedures,” the Maine Department of Labor gave more than $100,000,000 in jobless benefits…
Contrary to media reports, there is no federal investigation of Governor LePage. Rather, the U.S. Department of Labor will be…
The Lewiston-based Sun Journal reported Wednesday that Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage bullied Maine Department of Labor (DOL) staff during…
