Initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits decreased during the week ending on Saturday (Aug. 19). The seasonally adjusted figure for that week’s initial claims stood...
Initial jobless claims tumbled to 473,000, beating expectations and marking a new record low from the pandemic’s historic highs. The U.S. Department of Labor’s latest...
First-time jobless claims held steady last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) reported on Thursday (Sept. 10). For the week ending Sept. 5, the...
Despite predictions that the number of Americans seeking jobless benefits would drop for the second consecutive week, more than 1 million laid-off employees requested benefits last week,...
COVID-19 continues to jolt the nation’s economy as another 5,245,000 Americans applied for jobless benefits in the week ending April 11, the U.S. Labor Department reported...
Jobless claims released Thursday (April 9) show that the coronavirus triggered another 6.606 million unemployment claims for the week ending April 4. The latest numbers...
These are the kinds of records that no one wants to see broken. And yet, as the coronavirus pandemic keeps decimating businesses, particularly smaller ones,...
In another sign that the nation’s economy is suffering amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of new jobless claims reached record levels last week, double...
A record 3.28 million people claimed U.S. unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus continued to make its way throughout much of the world, shuttering...