{"id":5967,"date":"2021-08-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5967"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T15:02:30","slug":"u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-hit-17-month-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5967","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Hit 17-Month Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5968\" width=\"220\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/job-growth.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a 17-month low last week, pointing to another month of job growth. Increases in COVID-19 infections, however, still pose a risk to the labor market recovery. The weekly unemployment claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday August 19, showed that the number of people on state jobless rolls dropped in early August to levels last seen in mid-March 2020. Claims for state unemployment benefits fell 29,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000 for the week ended Aug. 14. The fourth straight weekly decline pushed claims to their lowest level since mid-March 2020. Claims have been decreasing, with employers hanging on to their workers amid a labor shortage as vaccinations allow the economy to fully reopen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Struggling financially? Please contact our office at 816-524-4949, or you can visit our website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoorfarlaw.com\/\">hoorfarlaw.com<\/a> to schedule an appointment.   <\/strong>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell to a 17-month low last week, pointing to another month of job growth. Increases in COVID-19 infections, however, still pose a risk to the labor market recovery. The weekly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1152,1163,354],"class_list":["post-5967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-jobless"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5967\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}