{"id":1985,"date":"2021-01-14T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:14:05","slug":"unemployment-claims-spike-as-965000-new-ones-filed-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims spike as 965,000 new ones filed last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 965,000 new unemployment claims were filed in the week ending January 9, according to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcaudio.us4.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e7c6daf297b0d503640349bcb&amp;id=797a559bd6&amp;e=e42c4dc170\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Labor Department<\/a>. This number is higher than expected, an increase of 181,000 from the previous week\u2019s level, which was revised down by 3,000 claims to 784,000, and a disappointing report amid other recent signs that the job market is suffering as the pandemic\u2019s economic toll increases.\u00a0 One reason for the increased numbers could be the added unemployment benefits kicking in from the recent passage of the new pandemic relief bill. \u00a0There are currently 18,406,940 people in the U.S. filing for unemployment through different government programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 965,000 new unemployment claims were filed in the week ending January 9, according to the U.S. Labor Department. This number is higher than expected, an increase of 181,000 from the previous week\u2019s level, which was revised down by 3,000 claims to 784,000, and a disappointing report amid other recent signs that the job market [&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-1985","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\/1985","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=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1986"}],"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=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}