First-time claims for unemployment insurance totaled 1.5 million last week, well above the 1.3 million expected. Workers receiving benefits under all programs including pandemic assistance totaled 29.1 million, a decrease of more than 375,000. This MORE
The torrent of Americans filing for unemployment insurance skyrocketed last week as more than 6.6 million new claims were filed, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That brings to 10 million the total Americans who filed MORE
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased last week as the US economic recovery trudged onward without fresh stimulus. New US weekly jobless claims totaled an unadjusted 870,000 for the week that ended MORE