Another 1.1 million out-of-work Americans filed initial unemployment benefit claims last week
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It is the 32nd week since millions of Americans began applying for unemployment benefits because of pandemic-induced layoffs as authorities tried to reduce the spread of the deadly coronavirus. For the week that ended October 24, the Department of LAnother 1.1 million out-of-work Americans filed initial unemployment benefit claims last week
It is the 32nd week since millions of Americans began applying for unemployment benefits because of pandemic-induced layoffs as authorities tried to reduce the spread of the deadly coronavirus. For the week that ended October 24, the Department of Labor reported Thursday, 751,000 newly jobless workers filed for state unemployment insurance and 360,000 filed for federal benefits under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, for a total of 1.1 million. That’s down 25,000 from the previous week. The PUC covers free-lancers and other self-employed people who aren’t eligible for benefits under the state programs. Although filings are nothing now like the millions who filed each week for five weeks straight in March and April, initial applications for state or federal benefits are continuing currently at more than four times the weekly average in the five years before the pandemic struck. And there’s a dark cloud approaching. Click here to search for GOTV events near you, and get involved in helping Team Blue win in November. Read more