{"id":113895,"date":"2026-02-14T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113895\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:50:10","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-pennsylvania-declined-last-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/113895\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania 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 15,551 in the week ending February 7, down from 18,838 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 227,000 last week, down 5,000 claims from 232,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Virginia saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 68.8%. Missouri, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 43.5%.<\/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 York Daily Record: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ydr.com\/story\/news\/2026\/02\/14\/unemployment-numbers\/88642272007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27555,28,30,29,27556,27557],"class_list":{"0":"post-113895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-jobless-claims","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-u-s-department-of-labor","13":"tag-unemployment-claims"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}