{"id":67831,"date":"2025-08-14T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:28:16","slug":"jobless-claims-fell-last-week-remain-in-healthy-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67831\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobless claims fell last week, remain in healthy range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range since the U.S. economy emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic<br \/>\n<br \/>\u00a0Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday<br \/>\n<br \/>That&#8217;s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast<br \/>\n<br \/>Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past few years<\/p>\n<p>Applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending Aug. 9 fell by 3,000 to 224,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That&#8217;s below the 230,000 new applications that economists had forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Weekly applications for jobless benefits are seen as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and have mostly settled in a historically healthy range between 200,000 and 250,000 since COVID-19 throttled the economy in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s report showed that the four-week average of claims, which smooths out some of the week-to-week volatility, ticked up by 750 to 221,750.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits for the previous week of Aug. 2 fell by 15,000 to 1.96 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell modestly last week, remaining in the historically low range&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[42779,42781,42780,16738,53882,3979,64,63,99,180,42782,84,39,4847],"class_list":["post-67831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-national-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-unemployment","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-jobs","tag-nnt","tag-politics","tag-top-stories","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}