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Some 963,000 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as initial jobless claims dipped below 1 million for the first time since mid-March, the feds said Thursday. But last week’s filings nonetheless drove the number of unemployment claims filed during the coronavirus pandemic above 56 million. New claims fell from 1.191 million the prior …

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits topped 1 million for the twentieth straight week — bringing the total number of initial jobless claims filed during the coronavirus pandemic to more than 55 million. An additional 1.186 million people filed for unemployment last week, according to the US Department of Labor. The unemployment rate …

Some 1.43 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, pushing the number of initial jobless claims filed during the coronavirus pandemic above 54 million, new data show. Last week marked the second consecutive week with an increase in new jobless filings, a further indication that the economic recovery from the pandemic is faltering. “Jobs …

Some 1.3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic kept the US job market under pressure, new data show. That means workers have submitted more than 51 million initial jobless claims in 17 weeks amid the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — a number larger than the populations …

The US economy may not shake its bad case of the coronavirus for another two and a half years, a new economic forecast warns. The nation is in for a gradual economic recovery from the “depression-like crisis” sparked by the pandemic, with production and employment likely to remain under pressure through the end of 2022, …

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Some 1.5 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week even as the US emerged from its coronavirus lockdown, the feds said Thursday. Thursday’s figures from the US Department of Labor show more than 44 million people — or roughly 28 percent of the US workforce — tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in …

Scammers posing as out-of-work residents have bilked Washington State out of “hundreds of millions of dollars” in unemployment benefits, a top official said. The fraudsters submitted bogus unemployment claims under the names of tens of thousands of people whose personal information had been stolen, said Suzi LeVine, commissioner of the state’s Employment Security Department. “I …

Another 2.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the number of workers sidelined by the coronavirus crisis topped 38 million, new federal data show. That indicates almost a quarter of the US workforce has tried to join the nation’s unemployment rolls in the past nine weeks as the pandemic kneecapped the global …

Youth will be served — in the most giving spirit. That will happen when A Night of Covenant House Stars — benefiting the at-risk youth charity Covenant House — streams at 8 p.m. Monday on Broadway on Demand. The concert — hosted by Broadway star Audra McDonald and “60 Minutes” anchor John Dickerson — will …