Americans filed an additional 803,000 unemployment claims in the week ending December 19, according to numbers released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Department of Labor. That’s slightly better than expectations and a decrease of 89,000 from the previous week’s revised level, which was revised up from 885,000 claims to 892,000. Those numbers are still higher than any seen pre-pandemic. Additionally, the total number of continued weeks claimed for benefits in all programs for the week ending December 5 was 20,363,675, a decrease of 283,170 from the previous week. By comparison, there were 1,757,802 weekly claims filed for benefits in all programs in the comparable week in 2019.
Additional 803,000 unemployment claims filed last week
