{"id":546860,"date":"2026-03-26T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546860\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:05:10","slug":"us-filings-for-jobless-aid-tick-up-last-week-to-210000-but-remain-at-healthy-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546860\/","title":{"rendered":"US filings for jobless aid tick up last week to 210,000 but remain at healthy levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON &#8212; The number of Americans applying for jobless aid inched up last week as employers continue to retain workers despite a labor market that has weakened considerably in the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">U.S. applications for jobless aid for the week ending March 21 rose by 5,000 to 210,000 from the previous week\u2019s 205,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That\u2019s right in line with the 210,000 new filings analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Filings for unemployment benefits are considered representative of 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 evens out some of the weekly swings, dipped by 250 to 210,500.<\/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 March 14 fell by 32,000 to 1.82 million, the government said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; The number of Americans applying for jobless aid inched up last week as employers continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[243776,966,28,101,1931,1929],"class_list":["post-546860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-243776","tag-article","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}