Tagged: Unemployment

Thousands to lose jobless benefits, Tacoma finds limits to saving Old City Hall, and today is World AIDS Day.

Nearly 100,000 people in Washington will get letters this week, letting them know how soon their unemployment benefits will run out.  Emergency assistance for the long-term jobless has expired.  

A massive computer programming project is putting a slight delay on some unemployment checks in Washington.

The latest figures are out, and the state's unemployment rate is unchanged from last month: 9.1%.

About 1,900  private sector jobs were added last month. That makes five consecutive months of job growth in private industry, according to the Employment Security Department. 

The public sector added 4,000 positions, largely due to education-related hiring in September.