{"id":1864,"date":"2020-12-23T15:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2020-12-23T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:24:36","slug":"additional-803000-unemployment-claims-filed-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Additional 803,000 unemployment claims filed last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Americans filed an additional 803,000 unemployment claims in the week ending December 19, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcaudio.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e7c6daf297b0d503640349bcb&amp;id=56b3556ca1&amp;e=e42c4dc170\" target=\"_blank\">numbers released Wednesday morning<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Labor.\u00a0 That\u2019s slightly better than expectations and a decrease of 89,000 from the previous week\u2019s revised level, which was revised up from 885,000 claims to 892,000.\u00a0 Those numbers are still higher than any seen pre-pandemic.\u00a0 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. \u00a0By comparison, there were 1,757,802 weekly claims filed for benefits in all programs in the comparable week in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 That\u2019s slightly better than expectations and a decrease of 89,000 from the previous week\u2019s revised level, which was revised up from 885,000 claims to 892,000.\u00a0 Those numbers are still higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blank-1000-x-5004.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}