NEW YORK, Dec. 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - New York-New Jersey Regional Information Office issued the following report on Dec. 30 on the county employment and wages in New York for second quarter 2020: Employment fell in all 18 of the largest counties in New York from June 2019 to June 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (Large counties are those with annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more in 2019.) Chief Regional Economis  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following article from Economics Daily: Three states had unemployment rates above 10.0 percent in November 2020: New Jersey at 10.2 percent and Hawaii and Nevada at 10.1 percent each. Nebraska and Vermont had the lowest rates, 3.1 percent each. In total, 26 states had jobless rates lower than the U.S. figure of 6.7 percent, 11 states and the District of Columbia had higher rates, and 13 states had rates   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 16 Civ. 09130; D.N.J. filed December 12, 2016): On December 28, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a final consent judgment against Joseph Taub, whom the SEC charged with orchestrating a market manipulation scheme. The SEC's complaint, filed on December 12, 2016 and amended on April 26, 2018, alleged that Taub engaged in a fraudulent market manip  more