{"id":143975,"date":"2026-03-20T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:51:09","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-pennsylvania-declined-last-week-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143975\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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-1fy9kyt\">New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 9,409 in the week ending March 14, down from 11,098 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 205,000 last week, down 8,000 claims from 213,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Kentucky saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 189.6%. Missouri, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 53.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;U.S. Department of Labor&#039;&quot;}\">U.S. Department of Labor&#8217;s weekly unemployment insurance claims report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">This article originally appeared on Pocono Record: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poconorecord.com\/story\/news\/2026\/03\/20\/unemployment-numbers\/89225419007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania declined last week&quot;}\" 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":143976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27555,28,30,29,27556,27557],"class_list":["post-143975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-jobless-claims","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-u-s-department-of-labor","tag-unemployment-claims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143975","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=143975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}