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Continued jobless claims see slight drop in Clark County
Dueling influences of season, coronavirus to have impact on jobs By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: December 17, 2020, 7:46pm
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Unemployment insurance claims in Clark County fell last week, but if annual seasonal trends hold, unemployment may not be done increasing just yet.
Continued unemployment insurance claims, a closely watched indicator in a recovering job market, fell by 1.7 percent last week, from 6,445 to 6,335.
“There’s not been a whole lot of change over last month except a jump in restaurant claims,” said Scott Bailey, regional economist for Southwest Washington. “The trend is going to wrestle between COVID-related impacts and seasonal impacts.”
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Pittsburgher Criseena Johnson is one of millions of people who will lose her unemployment benefits in a matter of days, without Congressional action.
Johnson, a single mother who worked for more than 15 years in the restaurant industry, has been out of a job since March.
“I’m one of those people that’s teetering the line of picking which one do I want to keep, do I want to feed my family, or do I want to keep my car?”
And that’s before she expects her unemployment to end on Dec. 26.
Two programs – Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation – will end this month if Congress does not extend them.
Three million Californians could lose unemployment benefits a day after Christmas amid bleak jobs outlook
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Alberto Torres, shown here in Oakland, was laid off from his chef s job when the pandemic hit. He s taking classes online to be a computer programmer.Scott Strazzante / The Chronicle
California’s unemployment rate stood at 8.2% in November, compared with 9% in October, a government report said on Friday. That’s more than double the 3.9% rate a year ago, before the pandemic and stay-at-home orders ravaged the job market. California has the sixth-highest unemployment rate nationwide.
Employers added 57,100 payroll jobs in November, a far slower pace of recovery than in October when the state gained 145,600 jobs. California has regained slightly less than half (46%) of the 2.6 million jobs that vanished in March and April.