{"id":6260,"date":"2021-11-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T22:08:44","slug":"u-s-jobless-claims-drop-to-pandemic-low-of-281000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6260","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Jobless Claims Drop to Pandemic Low of 281,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a pandemic low as the job market continues to recover from last year\u2019s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 10,000 to 281,000, the lowest since mid-March 2020, the Labor Department said Thursday. Since topping 900,000 in early January, weekly applications have steadily dropped, moving ever closer to pre-pandemic levels just above 200,000. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week gyrations, fell by nearly 21,000 to 299,250, also a pandemic low. In all, 2.2 million people were collecting unemployment checks the week of Oct. 16, down from 7.7 million a year earlier. In March and April last year, employers slashed more than 22 million jobs as businesses closed or reduced hours in response to lockdowns and consumers staying home as a health precaution.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jobless.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jobless.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6261\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Have you been affected financially by the COVID-19 pandemic? Give us a call at 816-524-4949 or visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\">website <\/a>to schedule a consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell to a pandemic low as the job market continues to recover from last year\u2019s coronavirus recession. Jobless claims dropped by 10,000 to 281,000, the lowest since mid-March 2020, the Labor Department &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6260\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260","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=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}