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Sen. Bernie Sanders may have lost the race to be the Democratic nominee for president, but the independent from Vermont was still interested in joining President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet in a role he feels passionate about. Rumors swirled for months that Sanders, who has long advocated for the working class, was jockeying to be secretary of labor, and Biden...

Two New England politicians have been chosen to join the Biden administration: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for labor secretary and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 751,000, a still-historically high level that shows that many employers keep cutting jobs in the face of the accelerating pandemic

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to 751,000, the lowest since March but a figure that remains historically high and indicates the viral pandemic is still forcing many employers to cut jobs

The state Department of Labor reports it has now received more than one million applications for unemployment benefits since mid-March.  “I think the number is shocking whenever you hear it,” said Frederick McKinney, a Quinnipiac University business professor. “You have to remember this decline in economic activity has been the greatest decline in economic activity since the Great Depression.”...

The state Department of Labor reports it has now received more than one million applications for unemployment benefits since mid-March.

Connecticut has submitted its application for the $300 federal unemployment supplemental payments created by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump. The Stafford Act disaster relief funds will assist workers who have lost their income due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is in addition to what claimants receive in state unemployment benefits and replaces the $600…

The Department of Labor says a power shortage took its unemployment benefit filing system offline.

The Commissioner of the Department of Labor is speaking exclusively with NBC Connecticut Investigates about the continued questions we are receiving from viewers about unemployment claims.

The Connecticut Department of Labor said they are urging workers that are about to exhaust their Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits to file for extended state benefits. “It’s important for claimants to file for extended benefits as soon as they receive the filing instructions – and not before – in order to transition from PEUC to the state extended benefits…

Unemployment in our state appears to have topped out around 19% in mid-May, a figure released by the Connecticut Department of Labor this week.  Call it the “pandemic peak,” something Connecticut DOL research director Andy Condon discussed with NBC Connecticut.   “It looks like the process of job recovery is beginning.  It looks like we have seen the worst of...

Thursday, Commissioner Kurt Westby said the Connecticut Department of Labor has paid out $751 million in benefits since March 13 and processed nearly three-quarters of the more than half-million applications it’s received since the pandemic started. “We are very quickly dispersing a lot of money into the economy and into the pockets of the well-deserved recipients,” Westby said. There are…

The state Department of Labor estimates that the state’s unemployment rate is at 17 percent

The Department of Labor said in its weekly briefing during the coronavirus crisis that it has received more than 500,000 unemployment claims in just two months.  The department said more than 400,000 of those have been processed, or are in process.  The agency added that it still has about a one week delay getting applications into processing. Max Pieper of…

The state has now received more than 515,000 unemployment claims since March 13, and many applicants are still having issues getting their payments

Self-employed residents in Connecticut who are out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic can now apply for unemployment and could receive payments in about a week if their applications were approved. The link to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program went live on the state Department of Labor website on Thursday. Click here to use it. Deputy Commissioner Danté...

The Department of Labor is currently fixing a bug that is preventing the self-employed unemployment application process from being up and running, according to the state’s chief operating officer.

The state has given the self-employed their first chance to file for unemployment benefits but the process can’t be completed until next week

With thousands still waiting on unemployment checks, getting answers from the Department of Labor hasn’t been easy but NBC CT Investigates seeks answers on the state’s response times