{"id":766893,"date":"2026-07-16T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:54:19","slug":"us-weekly-unemployment-claims-fall-to-208000-fewest-in-10-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/766893\/","title":{"rendered":"US weekly unemployment claims fall to 208,000, fewest in 10 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WASHINGTON &#8212; Filings for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks as U.S. layoffs remain historically low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The number of Americans applying for jobless aid in the week ending July 11 dropped by 8,000 to 208,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That&#8217;s well below the 219,000 new applications forecast by analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the U.S. job market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The four-week moving average of weekly jobless claims, which adjusts for volatility, declined by 4,750 to 214,250.<\/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 July 4 fell by 16,000 to 1.81 million, also a historically healthy figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Filings for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks as U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,8876,101,787,1931,1929],"class_list":["post-766893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-government-programs","tag-jobs-and-careers","tag-labor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766893","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=766893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}