{"id":141057,"date":"2026-02-21T16:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141057\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:12:37","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-new-york-declined-last-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141057\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in New York declined last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 16,916 in the week ending February 14, down from 24,382 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 206,000 last week, down 23,000 claims from 229,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Iowa saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 15.4%. Virginia, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 42.5%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">USA TODAY Co. is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/ui\/data.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:U.S. Department of Labor&#039;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">This article originally appeared on Binghamton Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/story\/news\/2026\/02\/21\/unemployment-numbers\/88756285007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in New York declined last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unemployment claims in New York declined last week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial filings for unemployment benefits in New York dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49231,9,11,10,49232,49233,49234],"class_list":["post-141057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-jobless-claims","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-unemployment-benefits","tag-unemployment-claims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}