{"id":77211,"date":"2026-01-03T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:47:10","slug":"unemployment-claims-in-pennsylvania-increased-last-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77211\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania increased last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 21,186 in the week ending December 26, up from 15,843 the week before, the Labor Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 199,000 last week, down 16,000 claims from 215,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Delaware saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims, with claims jumping by 88.2%. Arkansas, meanwhile, saw the largest percentage drop in new claims, with claims dropping by 66.9%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Hanover Evening Sun: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningsun.com\/story\/news\/2026\/01\/03\/unemployment-numbers\/87982270007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania increased last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unemployment claims in Pennsylvania increased last week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27555,28,30,29,27556,27557],"class_list":["post-77211","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\/77211","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=77211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}