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Rise in Weekly Unemployment Claims Points to Faltering Jobs Recovery

It’s being reported that another 1.4 MILLION Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week, but the number is actually much higher -- more than 2.3 MILLION.

wsj.com

New applications for unemployment benefits rose for the first time in nearly four months to 1.4 million as some states rolled back reopenings because of the pandemic, a sign the jobs recovery could...

Joblessness remains at historic levels and there is no evidence UI is disincentivizing work:...

The number of new unemployment claims is more than 2.3 MILLION b/c the reported numbers use seasonally adjusted data (which may distort the picture right now) and ignores Americans relying on PUA (such as self-employed workers).

epi.org

Last week 2.3 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. This is the 18th week in a row that unemployment claims have been more than twice the worst week of the Great Recessi...

Analysis | If a business is still closed at this point in the crisis, it’s probably permanent

And with permanent business closures now outnumbering temporary closures, jobs are less available by the day. Workers can’t just “try something new” when local businesses are closing for good.

washingtonpost.com

If a business is still closed now, months into the coronavirus crisis, it's likely to be permanent, according to the online review site Yelp, which carefully monitors business closures.