{"id":453077,"date":"2026-05-21T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/453077\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:57:08","slug":"us-jobless-aid-filings-fell-to-209000-last-week-as-layoffs-remain-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/453077\/","title":{"rendered":"US jobless aid filings fell to 209,000 last week as layoffs remain low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON &#8212; Fewer Americans filed for jobless aid last week as layoffs remain low despite a number of uncertainties that continue to cloud the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">U.S. applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 16 fell by 3,000 to 209,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That\u2019s fewer than the 213,000 new applications analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The four-week moving average of jobless claims, which softens some of the weekly volatility, inched down by 1,500 to 202,500.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The total number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the previous week ending May 9 grew by 6,000 to 1.78 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Fewer Americans filed for jobless aid last week as layoffs remain low despite a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,9513,184,11917,85,46,4260,3961],"class_list":["post-453077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-government-programs","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}