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FEMA Announces Lost Wages Grant For New York
FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor approved New York for a FEMA grant under the Lost Wages Assistance program.
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Fulton Daily News
Unemployment Drops in Oswego County in April
Unemployment in Oswego County took a big step back from the cliff in April. The jobless rate dropped from 10.7% in March to 9.1% in April. A state analyst said the improvement is good news but doesn’t mean the state has recovered from its recession.
Community
Owens Applauds Extension of Unemployment Benefits
The legislation also prevents a 21 percent cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients and extends COBRA subsidies that the unemployed rely on for health care.
Fulton Daily News
Unemployment Rate Drops A Bit in Oswego County
Unemployment pulled back in March in Oswego County from near-historic highs, but not because more people found jobs.
Data from the state Labor Department shows the unemployment rate in Oswego County in March was 10.8%. That’s down from 11.5% in February but is a few tenths of a point higher than the jobless rate of a year ago.
Oswego Daily News
Jobless Rate Remains Upstate’s Highest
Oswego County’s unemployment rate was unchanged from January to February. The rate remained at 11.6%.
The county’s jobless rate is the highest in Upstate New York and second highest in the state, to the Bronx’ 13.6%.
Oswego Daily News
Unemployment in Oswego County Soars To 17 Year High
The New York State Labor Department reports joblessness in the county soared to 11.6% in January. That’s the highest point for unemployment since Feb., 1993, when the rate was also 11.6%.
Oswego Daily News
Unemployment Above 10% Again In County
For the fifth time in 2009, the county’s unemployment rate crossed 10%.
Figures released by the state Labor Department Thursday show that Oswego County’s jobless rate soared to 10.6% in December, up 1.3 percentage points from the month before.
Fulton Daily News
Five County Residents Arrested In Unemployment Fraud Crackdown
Police swept across Upstate New York, arresting scores of people as part of a crackdown on unemployment insurance fraud.
Five Oswego County residents were caught in the sweep.
Oswego Daily News
Oswego County Jobless Rate Falls
Unemployment in Oswego County continued to back down from recent highs, falling to 9.2% in October, according to the New York State Labor Department.
The jobless rate stood at 9.4% in September and had hit the 10% level earlier in the year. A year ago, the jobless rate was just beginning to rise. It stood at 6.6%.
Fulton Daily News
County’s Jobless Rate Falls A Bit, As People Leave The Job Market
The county’s jobless rate was the third-highest in Upstate New York (all five of the boroughs of New York City reported rates equal to or higher than Oswego County’s rate). Only St. Lawrence and Steuben counties had higher rates of unemployment.