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...basic state unemployment compensation, which generally provides payments for up to 26 weeks. This program is funded by a tax on employers, which varies from state to state. In New Jersey, for instance, employers must pay up to $300 annually for each worker. Employees contribute nothing to any of the compensation plans...
Many states require that workers seeking jobless benefits first apply to an unemployment office and then return every week or two to show that they are willing to work if the office can provide them with a job suited to their skills. If it cannot, the worker signs a form, and in some states, like New Jersey, he picks up his check on the spot. In other states, like New York, workers must still show up at the office, but after they sign their form they have to wait for the check to be mailed to their home...
...vary widely from state to state. The highest weekly maximum, $156 (with dependents), is made in Connecticut; the lowest, $60, in Mississippi. Of course, many people receive less than those maximums. The Administration has now called on all states to pay an amount equal to at least half a worker's average weekly take-home pay-up to a maximum of two-thirds of the average salary paid in the state...
Though unemployment benefits were never intended to substitute for wages, there is a strong case for higher benefits in today's inflationary climate. Says New Jersey State Labor and Industry Commissioner Joseph Hoffman: "For the average worker with two children, to live on this state's $90-a-week maximum means subsisting on the poverty level...
...solutions but solicited from both sides a general idea of their minimum and maximum concessions. Thus there was no need for formal positions, policy clarifications or what Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon at one point referred to as "new miracles" from the Middle East's proclaimed miracle worker...