TABLE VII.—The maximum basic weekly benefit amount required to yield a ratio of three-fifths and two-thirds of the average weekly wage in covered employment

In Alaska the maximum for interstate claimants is $25.

Maximum shown would be increased by 25 percent for claimants employed in Colorado by covered employers for 5 consentive years with wages in excess of $1,000 per year and no benefits received.

Maximum shown applies until July 18, 1959; thereafter, reverts to $38.

Source: BES, U.S. Department of Labor.

TABLE IX.-Exhaustions of benefits in calendar year as percent of 1st payments,

Includes claimants exhausting benefits under the unemp.oyment compensation program for Federal employees.

2 Data are on a per employer basis and are, therefore, not strictly comparable.

Source: BES, U.S. Department of Labor.

TABLE X.-Summary distribution of States and of employed covered workers by maximum weeks of benefits for total unemployment, as of September 1952 and 1958

Based on average monthly covered employment in 1957.

* Includes Georgia which provides a maximum of 22 weeks for individuals whose base-period wages equal 4 times their high-quarter wages.

In Colorado, claimants employed in Colorado by covered employers for 5 consecutive years with wages in excess of $1,000 per year and no benefits received may be eligible for 26 weeks duration.

Source BES, U.S. Department of Labor.

TABLE XI.-Long-term unemployment by years and months since 1954

1958. Percent. 1957. Percent.

26. 2

1956.

682

648

865 1,148 1, 446 1,886 1,751 1. 620 1,670 1,650 1,461 1,392 1, 234
19.3 22.2 27.8 36.8 35.7 29.8 31.6
35. 1 35.5 36.6 32 2
500 617 663 706 637 508 494 470
15.4 19.8 23.0
23.5 15. 2 16.4 18 0
551 642
602
501 482 470
19.2 22.0 24. 1 25.3 23. 1 17.1 17.0 21.4 23.5
874 974 1,062 1, 111 879
648 586 460 458
26. 1 28.8 32.4 37.5 25.3 24.2 23.7 20.6 21.3
371 630 1,008 1,047 1,047 859 849 858 834
12.0
17.2 27.1 30.2 31.7 25.7 25.4 26.4 26.9

456 523 523 17.8 20.9 16.4 470 420 437 22.0 17.7 451 423

626

18.6

485

19.6

498

21.2 17.6
797

20.5

731

707

Percent..

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

TABLE XII.-Findings of postexhaustion studies, 1954-56-Percentage distribution of exhaustees by labor market status 2 and 4 months following exhaustion, 17 States

1 Maximum duration of benefits for total unemployment applicable at the beginning of the period surveyed in the study. "U" means uniform duration.

In the District of Columbia, Idaho, and Maine, data shown reflect labor market status 3 months after exhaustion.

• Information not available.

Source: BES, U.S. Department of Labor.