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As of July 3, 12.6 million people were receiving aid under all programs, down 1.3 million from the prior week as about two dozen states halted the extra federal pandemic benefits.
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New applications for US unemployment benefit saw a surprise uptick last week, the government said Thursday, data analysts said may be evidence of the rising threat posed by the Delta variant of Covid-19.
Initial jobless claims climbed to 419,000, seasonally adjusted, in the week ended July 17, an increase of 51,000 over the previous week, according to the Labor Department report.
“The unexpected bump in claims could be noise in the system, but it’s also not hard to see how the rise of the Covid-19 Delta variant could add thousands of layoffs to numbers that already are double what they were pre-Covid,” said Robert Frick of Navy Federal Credit Union.
por Redacción | Jul 22, 2021
ECONOMÍA. La semana cerró por encima de las 400 mil solicitudes. | Foto: Pixabay.
Las solicitudes de ayuda por desempleo aumentaron la semana pasada, en un contexto de incremento de casos de COVID-19 con la variante delta y temores sobre la posibilidad de más restricciones y cierres de empresas. El número de peticiones subió de 368 mil a 419 mil, informó el Departamento de Trabajo.
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¿Por qué es importante?: Esta es la tercera vez en seis semanas que aumentan las solicitudes de ayuda por desempleo. Los economistas consideran que el repunte es preocupante, pero advirtieron que era demasiado pronto para precisar si se trata de un hecho aislado o tiene mayores repercusiones en el mercado laboral.
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