{"id":145268,"date":"2025-08-14T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145268\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:17:13","slug":"jobless-claims-fell-last-week-remain-in-healthy-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/145268\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless claims fell last week, remain in healthy range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>\u00a0Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>That&#8217;s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past few years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That&#8217;s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 throttled the economy in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s report showed that the four-week average of claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, ticked up by 750 to 221,750.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits for the previous week of Aug. 2 fell by 15,000 to 1.96 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24166,24167,67744,7448,86092,1578,64,420,77624,80,52,766,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-145268","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-app-unemployment","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-nnt","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-unemployment","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115027551449363051","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}