{"id":201969,"date":"2025-09-05T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201969\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:43:08","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-new-york-increased-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/201969\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in New York increased last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff reports<br \/>\n\u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Network<\/p>\n<p>Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 16,594 in the week ending August 30, up from 14,790 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. unemployment claims rose to 237,000 last week, up 8,000 claims from 229,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 103.1%. Kentucky, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 64.4%.<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from the <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff reports \u00a0|\u00a0 USA TODAY Network Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York rose last week compared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":201970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6416,6420,3231,10493,3189,3040,79,458,111602,111603,606,451,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,1539,450,457,1229,1439,29156,646,766,24674,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,4748,22060,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-201969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-automated","10":"tag-automated-content","11":"tag-benefits","12":"tag-claims","13":"tag-content","14":"tag-department","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-economy-news","17":"tag-gpi-301","18":"tag-gpi-301-unemployment-claims","19":"tag-labor","20":"tag-negative","21":"tag-new","22":"tag-new-york","23":"tag-new-york-city","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newyork","26":"tag-newyorkcity","27":"tag-ny","28":"tag-nyc","29":"tag-of","30":"tag-overall","31":"tag-overall-negative","32":"tag-tennessee","33":"tag-u-s","34":"tag-u-s-department-of-labor","35":"tag-u0026","36":"tag-unemployment","37":"tag-unemployment-benefits","38":"tag-united-states","39":"tag-united-states-of-america","40":"tag-unitedstates","41":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","42":"tag-us","43":"tag-usa","44":"tag-welfare","45":"tag-welfare-u0026-unemployment","46":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201969","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=201969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}