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First-time filings for unemployment insurance totaled 2.44 million last week as the tail effects of the coronavirus shutdown continued to impact the U.S. jobs market.Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for 2.4 million claims.The seasonally adjusted total, while still well above anything the nation had seen in pre-coronavirus America, represents the seventh straight…

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 21, 2020, file photo, people wait outside a WIN job center in Pearl, Miss. As of mid-April, about 26 million Americans had filed unemployment claims in the first five weeks since governments began ordering ... more > By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 21, 2020…

We could distract ourselves today with the bitter feud between Donald Trump and George Conway, or the weird Twitter spat between Steve Mnuchin and Axl Rose.But with the number of new jobless claims now surpassing 33 million, the state of the shuttered economy seems far more important.Pundits and politicians bat the ball back and forth…

confounded scores of workers on Easter Sunday has returned this Sunday morning, despite the state’s insistence that the problem has been fixed.The Oregon Employment Department’s website again is telling many workers this Sunday morning that they must restart their claims when they make their weekly filing for benefits. That’s a mistake – most workers do…

Protection measures against the coronavirus continued to tear through the employment ranks, with 5.245 million more Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.That brings the crisis total to just over 22 million, nearly wiping out all the job gains since the Great Recession.The total was a bit worse…