The number of workers who filed for new jobless claims decreased last week with 803,000 filings. (Photo : Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)A job seeker looks at a job listing board at the East Bay Career Center February 2, 2006 in Oakland, California.
Senate Republicans' proposal to slash unemployment benefit from $600 to $200 would most greatly affect low-income workers, who lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic.
New applications for unemployment benefits in the United States remained near a 15-year low this week, while the average number of new claims rose 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,750 over the past month, statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor revealed.
After months of historic records of employment data in the United States, the labor market noted a bit of bad news on Thursday as new applications for unemployment benefits last week recorded their largest increase in eight months, according to government statistics.
U.S. jobless claims rose slightly in the week from April 26 to May 2, but the number of individuals applying for unemployment benefits remains near a 15-year low. MarketWatch said it had expected claims to rise to a seasonally adjusted 277,000; the actual tally came in at 265,000.
Jobless claims in the United States fell to a 15-year low last week, the Department of Labor said. During the seven days in question, 262,000 Americans signed up for unemployment aid nationwide; that is a drop of 34,000 individuals.
Fewer Americans filed unemployment claims last week. First-time jobless claims for the week ending June 14 fell 6,000 from the previous week. A total of 312,000 Americans filed unemployment claims for the first time last week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
16,000 more people filed claims than expected. More people filed unemployment claims than expected last week. In the week ending May 17, 326,000 unemployment claims were made, up from the 310,000 expected.
