Federal prosecutors today charged six people – three of them from Tacoma and one from Auburn – with collecting thousands in unemployment while they held down jobs.
Federal prosecutors today charged six people – three of them from Tacoma and one from Auburn – with collecting thousands in unemployment while they held down jobs.
Illegal payouts ranged from $14,000 to $78,000, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle reported in a news release.
A decade after it took on the arduous task of going after convicted criminals for owed fines and court costs, the Franklin County Clerk's Office for the first time has surpassed $1 million in a year.
It didn't come as much surprise to Clerk Mike Killian, who has been watching the numbers creep up over the years. The office hit $800,000 in 2011, so he knew it was a high probability they'd break the million mark.
But what impresses him is that the numbers doubled in just four years.
Greece's deep, six-year recession is likely to end in 2014, but growth will be weak and unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years, the country's international debt inspectors said.
When it comes to finding a job, there's a definite split taking place between rural and urban areas in Washington state.
With unemployment rates of 5.6 percent and 6.3 percent last month, King and Snohomish counties appear to have some of the healthier job markets in the U.S., according to the latest data from the Washington State Employment Security Department.
Much of the rest of the state is dealing with stagnant job growth, however. In 24 of the 39 counties, most of which are populated with small communities, the unemployment rate is 10 percent or higher.
President Barack Obama is letting his jobs council expire, cutting off one source of input from business leaders while unemployment remains stubbornly high.
Solid hiring helped lower unemployment rates in 40 U.S. states last month, the most since November. The declines show the job market is improving throughout most of the country.
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