By Doug Barrett
Jul 25, 2021 | 1:49 PM
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week from the lowest point of the pandemic, even as the job market appears to be rebounding on the strength of a reopened economy. Jobless claims increased to 419,000 from 368,000 the previous week. The weekly number of first-time applications for benefits, which generally tracks layoffs, has fallen steadily since topping 900,000 in early January. Economists say the increase is most likely a blip caused by some one-time factors.
Grand Forks County posted a 4.3 percent unemployment rate in June. That compares to 3.6 percent in Cass and 3.8 percent in Burleigh. The June 2021 not seasonally adjusted jobless rate for North Dakota was 4.4 percent.
WASHINGTON Americans watched more TV last year, played more computer games, thought and read a bit more, caught up on a little sleep and on average spent an extra hour each day alone and two additional hours wrangling or educating their kids.
Exercise? Meh.
The pandemic upended daily life for much of 2020, and updated government data released Thursday pinned down by just how much.
The American Time Use Survey, a detailed accounting from the Labor Department of what people do each day, confirmed much of what is already known or suspected about the months under lockdown and quarantine, from the increased burdens of childcare, particularly for women, to the jump in home-based work.
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Virus s impact: More relaxing and thinking, less socializing
A commuter sits in an otherwise empty car as he waits for the 7:58 p.m. train to Hudson to leave Grand Central Terminal, in New York, in 2020. The share of employed people working from home rose shot up from just 22% in 2019 to 42% in 2020. (Mary Altaffer/AP Photo)
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The Italian government announced that it would now require people to show a so-called green pass or proof of vaccination in order to participate in a broad range of social activities, including indoor dining.CreditCredit.Remo Casilli/Reuters
The Italian government announced on Thursday that it would require people to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative test in order to participate in certain social activities, including indoor dining, visiting museums and attending shows.
The move follows a similar announcement made by the French government last week and comes as the debate in Western nations heats up over how far governments should or can go in circumscribing the life of the unvaccinated.