The study by AlixPartners estimates that the cost of outsourcing manufacturing labor to China will catch up to the labor costs in the U.S. by 2015.
Pennsylvania state law sets the absolute maximum length of time you can receive state unemployment benefits at 26 weeks. However, some claimants won't qualify for 26 weeks of unemployment payments because of the wages earned in their base years.
It stays in the fund, and you can keep collecting until itâs gone. In essence, Massachusetts gives you a limit based on 30 (or 26) weeks of full unemployment. Then you collect as much as youâre entitled to every week until your funds run out, whether that takes you 30 weeks or 40 weeks or 50 weeks.