Republican legislative leaders convened a special session Tuesday to fix the state's unemployment system in the face of a massive backlog of pandemic-related claims but ended it seconds after it began without taking any substantive action.

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The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and a sign that the resurgent virus has likely increased layoffs.

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Republicans balked Wednesday at Gov. Tony Evers' call for a special legislative session next week to pass his plan for improving the state's unemployment-benefits system in the face of a massive backlog of pandemic-induced claims.

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Gov. Tony Evers on Wednesday called a special legislative session for next week on his new plan to improve the state's unemployment-benefits system in the face of a massive backlog of pandemic-induced claims.

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Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development officials said on Thursday they've assigned the last few thousand undecided unemployment claims to adjudicators.

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Gov. Tony Evers' administration plans to clarify questions on unemployment-benefit applications starting this spring as it wrestles with a massive backlog of unprocessed claims resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.

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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 89,000 last week to a still-elevated figure of 803,000, evidence that the job market remains under stress nine months after the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy into recession and caused millions of layoffs.

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Wisconsin unemployment drops to 5% in November.

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America's employers sharply scaled back their hiring last month as the viral pandemic accelerated across the country, adding 245,000 jobs, the fewest since April.

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Wisconsin's unemployment rate rose to 5.7% in October from 5.4% in September as the coronavirus continues to rage across the state, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reported on Thursday.

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