American workers filed 803,000 applications for jobless benefits last week, an unexpected decrease as the coronavirus kept the labor market under pressure, the feds said Wednesday. The latest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total reported during the COVID-19 pandemic to about 72.2 million --equivalent to roughly 45 percent of the nation’s workforce. Jobless...
US workers file 803K jobless claims as COVID-19 pressures labor market
New York Post - 23 Dec 2020 15:50
American workers filed 803,000 applications for jobless benefits last week, an unexpected decrease as the coronavirus kept the labor market under pressure, the feds said Wednesday. The latest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total reported during the COVID-19 pandemic to about 72.2 million --equivalent to roughly 45 percent of the nation’s workforce. Jobless...
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