US jobless claims

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  • Spiraling COVID-19 Cases Driving Up U.S. Layoffs; Inflation Still Benign
    Green Circuits
    The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits jumped to a near three-month high last week as mounting new COVID-19 infections led to more business restrictions.
  • U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Fall; Services Sector Activity Slows
    U.S. jobs
    The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits fell last week, but remained extraordinarily high amid widespread business restrictions to slow a rising tide of new COVID-19 infections and lack of additional fiscal stimulus.
  • Jobless Aid For Nearly 14 million Americans To Expire The Day After Christmas
    Jobless Claim
    The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits under pandemic programs set to expire the day after Christmas continued to rise in early November, according to a Labor Department report released Wednesday.
  • US Braces For Increase In Jobless Americans As Pandemic Rages On
    JOBLESS
    Economists predict an additional 2.1 million Americans applied for jobless claims in the week ending May 23.
  • Additional 2.4 Million Americans File For Unemployment Claims
    JOBLESS
    The coronavirus pandemic has created the worst employment market since the Great Depression
  • Economists Estimate Another 2.5 Million Americans Filed For Jobless Claims
    JOBLESS
    The job cuts will not end as long as America's richest sectors - the northeastern zone - is on lockdown, analysts say.
  • US House Approves New $484 Billion Aid To Bail Out Small Enterprises, Healthcare
    BAILOUT
    The new relief package is the fourth approved by House in its ongoing war against the pandemic.
  • Jobless Claims In US Balloon From 3 Million To 6 Million In 2 Weeks
    JOBLESS
    Millions of new jobless claims seen as layoffs continue to rise in the US
  • American Unemployment Claims Balloon To Record 6.6 Million
    JOBLESS
    Widespread job cuts linked to pandemic caused a rise in number of Americans who filed for unemployment insurance