{"id":475079,"date":"2025-12-27T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475079\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:59:15","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-new-york-declined-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/475079\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in New York declined 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 dropped 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, fell to 18,006 in the week ending December 19, down from 19,114 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 214,000 last week, down 10,000 claims from 224,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 63.3%. West Virginia, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 39.7%.<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY Co. 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 dropped 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":[5229,6416,6420,3231,10493,3189,3040,79,458,111602,111603,606,3336,451,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,1539,450,457,1439,29156,646,766,24674,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,4748,22060],"class_list":{"0":"post-475079","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-nebraska","21":"tag-negative","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-u-s","33":"tag-u-s-department-of-labor","34":"tag-u0026","35":"tag-unemployment","36":"tag-unemployment-benefits","37":"tag-united-states","38":"tag-united-states-of-america","39":"tag-unitedstates","40":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","41":"tag-us","42":"tag-usa","43":"tag-welfare","44":"tag-welfare-u0026-unemployment"},"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\/475079","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=475079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475079\/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=475079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}