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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 March's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.9%, less than half of the national jobless rate of 6%. Utah's nonfarm payroll employment for March rose an estimated 0.9% over the past 12 months as the state economy gained 13,800 new jobs since March of last year. The state's current employment...

Teleworking helped keep Utah's economy afloat in pandemic, study says and last updated 2021-04-13 19:46:51-04 SALT LAKE CITY — A new analysis by Utah's Department of Workforce Services finds that teleworking has helped keep the state's 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 they've watched how a dramatic expansion of teleworking impacted Utah. "What we saw is instantly about 35% of the national workers had been shifted from ...

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 bar exam in 2019, Sledge wept with relief. A year later, when schools shuttered in the pandemic, her...