KENTUCKY
Percent Unemployed Getting Benefits: 20% (tied-seventh lowest)
Percent Average Weekly Wage Covered: 37.5% (19th highest)
Unemployment Rate: 7.7% (fifth highest)
Black Unemployment rate (2013): 13.2%
Kentucky is generous with its unemployment insurance, offering 37.5% of the average weekly wage in benefits. But only 20% of total applicants actually received benefits. Kentucky’s 7.7% unemployment rate is the fifth highest in the country. Those who received unemployment insurance received benefits for nearly 22 weeks, the longest period of any state in the country.