Close to a million workers in the United States have filed new unemployment claims, the largest weekly figure in months, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The department said in its weekly report that 965,000 more U.S. workers filed new jobless claims by the end of last week.
The new figure is an increase of more than 180,000 from the previous week and the largest since August.
Thursday’s report showed significantly more claims than most analysts expected. Many experts had predicted the figure would be below 800,000.
The department said in its report that the unemployment rate for the week ending Jan. 9 was 3.7%. It also revised down the previous week’s figure by 3,000 claims.
There are 5.3 million continuing claims in the United States, which lag initial claims by a week.
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The Democrats are keeping everything shut down, so what does one expect. The destruction of the economy and the Government will support you. Oh, how I love living in Venezuela.
IMO the lockdowns will stay in place a good 2 more years, IF THE LEFT GETS THEIR WAY.. And i see no reason they wouldn’t.
by the time the useful idiots who voted demoncrat realize what they have done it will be over.
they stole this election period dot end of story.
we will be dam lucky if we have another election.
YOU assume, those Cretins who DID vote for the dems, WILL EVER wake up and realize how SCREWED UP they were, in voting for biden/the dems.