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By Wyatt Goolsby Apr 16, 2021 This week, we got some positive signs our economy is improving. Jobless claims are at their lowest in more than a year. Theres a bit more optimism about the economy after this weeks jobs report. A drop of 193,000 puts the number of new claims at 576,000. Mark Hamrick, with Bankrate, says parts of the economy seeing the quickest recovery those hit the hardest during the shutdowns. He says those same industries are now experiencing some growing pains. “Employers a...

Signs Of Economic Boom Emerge As Retail Sales Surge, Jobless Claims Hit Pandemic Low at 7:39 am NPR Signs of an economic boom are emerging as Americans open up their wallets to spend freely. Retail sales soared 9.8% in March, according to a report Thursday from the Commerce Department. The increase follows a 2.7% slump in February, which analysts blamed partly on severe winter weather. The surge is being fueled by shoppers flush with cash from $1,400 dollar relief payments, a...

Listen • 3:51 Diners eat lunch at Maxs Oyster Bar in West Hartford, Conn., on March 19. Retail sales surged last month as $1,400 relief payments and easing coronvirus restrictions led shoppers to open their wallets. Signs of an economic boom are emerging as Americans open up their wallets to spend freely. Retail sales soared 9.8% in March, according to a report Thursday from the Commerce Department. The increase follows a 2.7% slump in February, which analysts blamed partl...

Economic Data Shows Fewer Workers Losing Jobs and Americans Eager to Spend A suite of stronger-than-expected economic data on jobs, retail sales, and corporate earnings came out Thursday, reinforcing the view that a potential boom, much-anticipated by economists, may be getting more traction. Overall, the data shows fewer workers losing their jobs, Americans eager to spend more, and corporate profits getting fatter, sending all three major Wall Street indexes higher on the opening bell. On the ...

Jessica Hill/AP toggle caption Jessica Hill/AP Diners eat lunch at Maxs Oyster Bar in West Hartford, Conn., on March 19. Retail sales surged last month as $1,400 relief payments and easing coronavirus restrictions led shoppers to open their wallets. Jessica Hill/AP Signs of an economic boom are emerging as Americans open up their wallets to spend freely. Retail sales soared 9.8% in March, according to a report Thursday from the Commerce Department. The in...

Signs of an economic boom are emerging as Americans open up their wallets to spend freely. Retail sales soared 9.8% in March, according to a report Thursday from the Commerce Department. The increase follows a 2.7% slump in February, which analysts blamed partly on severe winter weather. The surge is being fueled by shoppers flush with cash from $1,400 dollar relief payments, and in some cases, by the feeling of newfound security from a fresh vaccine. Hope about the economy was further reinforc...

Triad jobless rate reaches pandemic low of 5.9% in February, bolstered by modest hiring in Winston-Salem area North Carolina experienced a slight decline in initial unemployment-insurance benefit claims last week, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday. North Carolina had 7,574 claims for the week that ended April 10, compared with a revised 7,777 the previous week. The April 8 report was the first week-over-week increase in claims for N.C. since the department’s Jan. 14 report. The s...

With economy reviving, Capital Region employers scramble to find workers Many in a race against time as the summer season nears FacebookTwitterEmail Six Flags Great Escape in Queensbury will hold drive-through job fairs on Saturday, April 17 and Saturday, April 24 as it seeks to fill 1,500 jobs before the park opens at the beginning of May. (Times Union archive)SKIP DICKSTEIN Six Flags Great Escape theme park is holding its first-ever contact-free drive-through job fair as it races to fill 1,50...

Americans Continue to File for Unemployment as Optimism Sets In As we continue to navigate the road to recovery, twists and turns remain. But progress on the jobs front will continue as employers prepare to refresh their talent base and focus on getting America safely back to work. April 8, 2021 – The Labor Department reported this morning that 744,000 Americans filed new claims for state unemployment benefits. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expected 694,000 filings. The previous week’s a...

Provided by Dow Jones By Gwynn Guilford Weekly unemployment claims are close to their lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic hit more than a year ago, adding to evidence that layoffs are easing as an economic revival gathers force. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expect worker filings for initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, to have fallen to 694,000 last week, from 719,000 the preceding week. That would bring the four-week average -...