New applications for unemployment benefits increased by 11% more than the previous week.
Although the United States is making significant progress in the fight against COVID-19 with the distribution of the vaccine and the boosters, the impact on the labor market has been left behind, with new jobless claims increasing week after week.
There are currently 6.3 million unemployed Americans due to the COVID pandemic-19.
During the week of January 3 they were accounted for 230,04 new applications for unemployment benefits throughout the country, which This is a much lower figure than the 6.1 million during the peak of the pandemic, which represents a reduction of 96%.
Despite the fact that there was an increase in weekly requests at the national level, 19 states had a level of unemployment that was better than the figures recorded in the same week but last year.
All states had jobless claims that were higher than before the pandemic, except Georgia, Arkansas, Rhode Isl and, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Alabama, Delaware, New York, Virginia, Maine, Maryland, Connecticut, and Oklahoma.
In the case of California, weekly unemployment claims placed the state in the number place 12 among the entities with the highest increase during the week of January 3. California had 62,969 new jobless claims, compared to 50,230 In the past week.
However, the 10 states that presented the largest increase in unemployment applications were :
- Utah
- D.C
- Indiana
- Tennessee
- Kentucky
- North Dakota
- Missouri
- Wyoming
- Ohio
- Texas
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