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SALT LAKE CITY — One year since the coronavirus pandemic shocked the Utah economy, sending thousands of people into the morass of joblessness, the Beehive State today boasts the lowest unemployment rate in the nation. The Utah Department of Workforce Services reported in Salt Lake City Friday that Marchs seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.9%, less than half of the national jobless rate of 6%. Utahs nonfarm payroll employment for March rose an estimated 0.9% over the past 12 months as...

Teleworking helped keep Utahs economy afloat in pandemic, study says and last updated 2021-04-13 19:46:51-04 SALT LAKE CITY — A new analysis by Utahs Department of Workforce Services finds that teleworking has helped keep the states economy afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We were all forced to have to do this," he said in an interview with FOX 13 on Tuesday. Using survey data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Knold said theyve watched how a dramatic expansion of teleworking i...

New weekly unemployment claims have decreased for four consecutive weeks in Utah, with 3,113 submitted last week. The Utah Department of Workforce Services reported Thursday, for the week of Feb. 21-27, a total of $21,269,129 in benefits was paid while32,514 continued claims were filed. The number of individuals who have not requested a benefit for two consecutive weeks as of Feb. 20, 2021, was 1,683. A total of 2,029 met the same criteria...

Utah's jobless rate was 3.1% in January

SALT LAKE CITY — Lisa Sledge earned a law degree, in her telling, by the grace of God and a support network that spanned from kind professors to anonymous donors leaving cash in her mailbox. Newly divorced and with two young children, the legal assistant woke up between 2 and 4 a.m. for a second job tutoring children online. She often toted her daughter, then 4, and son, 6, to her classes at the University of Utah’s law school. She sold her dining table to make rent. When she passed the b...

Woman aims to help ‘invisible population’ of single moms weather the pandemic Annie Knox © Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News Lisa Sledge, a lawyer and a single mother of two, center, walks with her children Emmett and Bethany and dog Marshall in West Jordan on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Sledge earned a law degree while raising her children on her own and wants to help others through her new nonprofit Freedom for Resilient Women. Lisa Sledge earned a law degree, in her telling, b...

KSL TV SALT LAKE CITY – It has been against the law since the 1960s for an employer to discriminate against an employee based on age. But it happens frequently, thanks, largely, to a loophole in the law. Now, advocates are hopeful they can close that loophole. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 clearly says a boss cant decide not to hire you or not promote you, based on being older. But about 10 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court picked the law apart making age discrimination a l...

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Deseret News State’s unemployment rate drops to 3.6% Share this story Kristin Murphy, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — A state economist says Utah’s “ship has righted,” with the Beehive State reporting a 3.6% unemployment rate and the first month of year-over-year growth in people working since the pandemic hit. “In December, Utah became the second state economy to flip from COVID-induced job losses back to economic expansion,” said Mark Knold, chief economist with the Utah Departmen...

| Updated: 8:14 p.m. Nearly nine months into the pandemic, Utah’s economy has reversed deep job losses suffered earlier in the crisis and actually ended a terrible 2020 slightly ahead on employment. The Beehive State’s unemployment rate markedly improved to 3.6% last month from 4.3% in November after essentially flipping in December from a downturn to something of a jobs expansion, ending the year with employment up by 0.6%. Nationally, unemployment stood at 6.7% for December, unchanged fr...