{"id":43159,"date":"2025-09-25T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:57:08","slug":"us-initial-jobless-claims-drop-to-the-lowest-level-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/43159\/","title":{"rendered":"US Initial Jobless Claims Drop to the Lowest Level Since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Initial applications for jobless benefits in the US fell to the lowest since mid-July, underscoring how companies remain reticent to lay off workers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">New claims decreased by 14,000 to 218,000 in the week ended Sept. 20, according to Labor Department data released Thursday. That was much lower than the median forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists, which called for 233,000 applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial applications for jobless benefits in the US fell to the lowest since mid-July, underscoring how companies remain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[460,72,9921,4990,113,1392,1523,61,60,24159,14849,1630,4674,9904],"class_list":["post-43159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-consumer-spending","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-government","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jay-powell","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-labor","tag-retail","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}