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.
There is no minimum amount of time or wages an employer has to meet in order to qualify under unemployment compensation. â you must have a total of 18 credit weeks within the entire base period â which means you were employed for at least 18 weeks in the base period and earned at least $116 in each of those weeks. http://www.uc.pa.gov/unemployment-benefits/benefits-information/Pages/Weekly-Benefit-Rate.aspx.