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2021-03-26 Economy

Dupe entry: Good News: Declines in new and continuing jobless numbers

new claims [for unemployment] totaled 684,000 for the week ended March 20, the first time the number has been below 700,000 during the Covid-19 era. The level was a substantial decline from the 781,000 from a week earlier and was the lowest since March 14, 2020, just as the pandemic had begun....

In addition to the drop in weekly claims, continuing claims, which run a week behind, declined to 3.87 million, a slide of 264,000...

back in the pre Covid era new claims were at about 100k and continuing claims were at about 1M so we have a long, long way to go to reach the economic recovery levels in the Trump era

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-03-26 07:37|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 Oh and don't forget from the Obama era, people who've been out of work for so many months are simply dropped off the calculations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-26 12:30|| 2021-03-26 12:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Lord Garth: Rantburg’s code thinks this is a duplicate because you forgot to paste the URL in the Source box. What is the URL?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-26 16:09|| 2021-03-26 16:09|| Front Page Top

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