Michigan residents who have remaining pandemic unemployment payments can start to claim them this week, including the additional $300 COVID-19 benefit, state officials announced.
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On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.7 percent from November to December (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 2.9 percent from December 2019.
From the Census Bureau report:
Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for December 2020, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $540.9 billion,
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decrease of 0.7 percent from the previous month, but 2.9 percent above December 2019.
Total sales for the 12 months of 2020 were up 0.6 percent from 2019. . The October 2020 to November 2020 percent change was revised from down 1.1 percent to down 1.4 percent.
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This graph shows retail sales since 1992. This is monthly retail sales and food service, seasonally adjusted (total and ex-gasoline).
Through the week ending January 9, 2021, there have been a total of 803,738 initial claims filed since the week ending March 14, 2020, at the onset of the pandemic.