Lycoming County employment data is edging closer and closer to where it was a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Accord
Lehigh Valley’s unemployment rate shrinking, latest data shows
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
The Lehigh Valley region in November continued to rebound from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on employment.
That’s according to Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry data released Tuesday showing the unemployment rate for the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) was 6.7% in November, a decrease of half of a percentage point from October.
During the widespread shutdown of Pennsylvania’s economy at the outset of the pandemic, the Lehigh Valley region’s unemployment rate hit an historic high 16.7% in April. The region through November recovered 44,600, or 71.1%, of the 62,700 jobs lost from February through April, the department says, as the unemployment rate dropped by 60%.
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Pa. set to resume COVID-19 unemployment programs December 29, 2020
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The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry is set to resume making payments through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs but could see a gap in benefits after a delay in approval by the federal government.
The department announced on Monday that more than 509,000 workers in the commonwealth could see gaps in their payments through unemployment assistance as it awaits approval from the federal Department of Labor.
Both the PUA and PEUC, as well as the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) program all received extensions this month through the COVID relief package after President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion bill into law Sunday night.
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