Unemployment claims increased during the week ending Jan. 9. Initial claims were up just over 1,000 to 9,511 a 12 percent increase. Since March 14, there have now been 803,738 initial claims filed with.
According to Nevada DETR, since the week ending March 14, 2020, the first week Nevada saw claims increase due the pandemic, there have been a total of 794,227 initial claims filed.