A glimmer of hope: 'Only' 730,000 Americans filed for jobless claims last week

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First-time unemployment claims fell to 730,000 last week, the Labor Department says, far fewer than economists had predicted

That was far fewer than economists had predicted, and a massive 111,000-claim drop from the prior week's number of applications.The decline was mostly due to sharp drops in applications filed in California and Ohio. In Texas, where extreme winter weather led to power and water outages, claims also declined by more than 7,000 applications.

"For months, there's been no substantial improvement in the magnitude of total initial claims," said Indeed Hiring Lab economist AnnElizabeth Konkel in emailed comments. Despite changes in the direction claims are trending, the total number of initial applications is still nearly six times higher than in the same period last year.Continued claims for jobless benefits stood at 4.4 million in the week ended February 13, a slight decrease from the prior week.

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The entire state of Texas has been offline, that may have effected the numbers.

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Big issue now is tax season. All those who collected unemployment last year are going to have whooping income tax owed to feds and state. Seems they don’t do mandatory withholding from each check.

Yet again this is a false statistic. last week there were snow storms everywhere in the country people could not get out to file this week they will be backup

Nearly a million NEW unemployment claims in a week. That’s nothing to celebrate in “richest nation on earth”.

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Unfortunately still a really big number. These are real people. Each one has a story. Some may not have any backups. Some now fear disaster.

Don’t believe what the government says they can lie about it

Prayed this whole thing goes down.

Probably because claims aren’t being processed in a timely manner so people just didn’t bother...

i think that has something to do with the massive winter storms across the country last week, cnn

It's almost like experts are just people who are making their best-educated guess.

It’s not because they found work!

Still have plenty of people who have given up on trying to find work.

Stonks

Thanks Biden

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