{"id":325330,"date":"2025-08-07T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325330\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:52:09","slug":"u-s-applications-for-jobless-benefits-rise-modestly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/325330\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. applications for jobless benefits rise modestly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers still retaining workers despite economic uncertainty related to U.S. trade policy<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 2 rose by 7,000 to 226,000, slightly more than the 219,000 new applications analysts forecast<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The report is the first government labor market data release since Friday&#8217;s grim July jobs report sent financial markets spiraling downward, spurring President Donald Trump to fire the head of the agency that tallies the monthly jobs numbers<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Applications for jobless benefits serve as a proxy for layoffs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jobless claims for the week ending Aug. 2 rose by 7,000 to 226,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday, slightly more than the 219,000 new applications that economists had forecast.<\/p>\n<p>The report is the first government labor market data release since Friday&#8217;s grim July jobs report sent financial markets spiraling downward, spurring President Donald Trump to fire the head of the agency that tallies the monthly jobs numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The four-week average of claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, fell by 500 to 220,750.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits for the previous week of July 26 jumped by 38,000 to 1.97 million, the highest level since November of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits rose modestly last week, a sign that employers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[117405,117407,117406,14857,19430,51,897,117409,12,117408,285,14,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-325330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","10":"tag-app-national-politics","11":"tag-app-top-stories","12":"tag-associated-press","13":"tag-business","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-national-and-international","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nnt","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114987816968110206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}