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“#779,000 filed as COVID crisis continues<\/strong>”
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American workers filed 779,000 app<\/a>lications for unemployment benefits last week in the latest sign that the labor market is still in the throes of its coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n

The newest batch of initial jobless claims brought the total for the COVID-19 pandemic to roughly 77.2 million \u2014 a number nearly twice as large as California\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

While last week\u2019s filings came in below economists\u2019 expectations for 830,000, the data suggest employers and workers are still under pressure from the virus even though the nation\u2019s record-breaking case counts have started to decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome states are loosening restrictions and more Americans have now received at least one dose of vaccination than have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began,\u201d Bloomberg economist Eliza Winger said in a commentary. \u201cStill, job opportunities in sectors most adversely affected by the virus will remain scarce.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s jobless filings marked a slight drop from the prior week\u2019s revised total of 812,000, the US Department of Labor said Thursday.<\/p>\n

But new claims have remained above the pre-pandemic record of 695,000 for 46 consecutive weeks even as the job market trudged back from an unprecedented downturn last spring.<\/p>\n

Jobless claims spiked earlier in January amid a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths that spurred a new wave of lockdown measures and led the US economy to shed 140,000 jobs in December.<\/p>\n

The jump may have also been driven by the $900 billion coronavirus relief bill Congress passed at the end of last year that boosted unemployment payments by $300 a week, experts have said.<\/p>\n

The latest data came a day ahead of the feds\u2019 closely watched jobs report for February. Economists expect the report to show payrolls adding 58,000 jobs, which would be a modest rebound from December\u2019s loss, according to Wrightson ICAP.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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