{"id":2101,"date":"2021-02-04T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2021-02-04T15:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:14:48","slug":"unemployment-claims-down-for-most-recent-week-with-779000-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=2101","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims down for most recent week, with 779,000 filed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There were 779,000 applications for unemployment filed in the week ending January 3, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Department of Labor<\/a>.\u00a0 That number is better than expected and represents a decrease of 33,000 claims from the previous week\u2019s level, which itself was revised down by 35,000 to 812,000 claims.\u00a0 This is the third consecutive week that claims have trended lower, but they still remain at a level not seen prior to the pandemic.\u00a0 Claims have generally mirrored the trajectory of the pandemic, such that an increase or decrease in COVID-19 cases has meant a rise or fall in unemployment claims.

The monthly jobs report for January will be released Friday, with the economy is expected to have added about 50,000 jobs.\u00a0 If so, that would be an improvement after the decline in employment seen in December, but still not nearly what is needed to restore the economy to pre-pandemic levels.\u00a0 According to today’s numbers, 17,835,525 people are currently claiming unemployment benefits through all government programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were 779,000 applications for unemployment filed in the week ending January 3, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Department of Labor.\u00a0 That number is better than expected and represents a decrease of 33,000 claims from the previous week\u2019s level, which itself was revised down by 35,000 to 812,000 claims.\u00a0 This is […]<\/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-2101","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\/2101","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=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2102"}],"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=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}