Weekly Jobless Claims Tick Up To 1.1 Million

An unemployment application is seen in a box as City of Hialeah employees hand them out to people in front of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 08, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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The Department of Labor reported on Thursday that 1,106,000 jobless claims had been filed in the week ending on August 15, “an increase of 135,000 from the previous week’s revised level.”

The figures indicate that the streak of mass unemployment in the U.S. brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to be contained.

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  1. Lot of winning. Some are saying too much winning, others are getting tired of winning.

  2. Avatar for denisj denisj says:

    But how many of those unemployed will still give Trump a pass and vote for him? It would be interesting if pollsters would ask that question of unemployed and the related question who did you vote for in 2016?

  3. And as for Trump: Lots of whining. Some are saying too much whining. I, for one, am way more than tired of his whining … and lying.

  4. Those Trump branded Senate Rs need to get their corrupt asses back to work and at least pretend to have a heart and get the Heroes Act (not their Heals Act = HEELS Act) passed into law to help the vulnerable Americans!

  5. Plenty. They lost their jobs because their Governor shut them down, Trump wanted to open everything up but the Dems wouldn’t let him.

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