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U.S. Jobless Claims Fell to 473,000 Last Week Jobless claims continued a several-week slide to new pandemic lows, in a sign hiring is primed to strengthen as workers return to the labor market. Worker applications for unemployment benefits fell to 473,000 last week from a revised 507,000 a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday. Claims remain above pre-pandemic levels but are now at the lowest point since mid-March 2020, when the pandemic shut down the economy and triggered widespread joblessness. The four-week moving average, which smooths out volatility in the weekly numbers, also...

Government and Leisure & Hospitality industries post greatest job gains in April. "Maintaining March's robust pace of job gain was going to be challenging at some point, but it was expected to be a few months away. We are seeing an earlier, more significant slowdown," said Jay Denton, chief analyst for ThinkWhy. One year ago, the U.S. lost 20.7 million jobs in April 2020 alone, equivalent to 13.8% of total employment at that time. Combined with significant job loss in March 2020, the U.S. suddenly found itself with 22.4 million fewer jobs in the blink of an eye.  Fast forw...

/PRNewswire/ -- ENDURE Studios closed April with a featured placement in the season finale of USA Network's Temptation Island. "Before We're Leaving Here" was...

One year after pandemic, Dallas’ job market heats up again, even while some sectors are still hurting Federal relief efforts have helped bridge the gap, especially for those who couldn’t work from home. In the Dallas-Plano-Irving metro area, many sectors added jobs last year, but the pandemic was brutal for restaurants. They lost nearly 50,000 jobs in 2020, and one economist said the problem will be fixed only after the coronavirus is gone.(Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer) Carletta Castillo had been working in the hotel industry for 21 years when the coronavirus pandemic was declared a...

ThinkWhy, a SaaS company helping businesses navigate the labor market, released its national jobs report following an announcement from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that the economy added 379,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate at 6.2 percent.