Unemployment subsidy requests in the United States They reached a total of 263,000 applications last week, What represents a rise of 27,000 people with respect to the previous figure and an unbeatized record since October 23, 2021, as revealed by the data published Thursday by the Department of Labor.
The perceptors of this benefit added in the week ended on August 30 a total of 1,939 million, equivalent to a stagnation in the number of beneficiaries compared to those accounted for in the previous seven days. In the same comparable period of 2024, they stood at 1,845 million.
The main increases were given in Tennessee (2,870), Connecticut (2,270), New York (1,683), Illinois (1,331) and California (982). On the other hand, the most pronounced falls were recorded in Kentucky (-2.833), Pennsylvania (-504), Florida (-456), Texas (-402) and Arizona (-329).
The highest unemployment rates backed by aid were those of New Jersey (2.8%); Rhode Island (2.5%); Massachusetts (2.2%); Washington (2.1%); California, Connecticut, Minnesota and Puerto Rico (2%); the Columbia district (1.9%); and New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania (1.8%).
Last Friday, it was also known that Trump has ended four uninterrupted jobs for employment creation in the United States. The unemployment rate in August stood at 4.3%, also the highest since October 2021.
The American economy created employment in each and every four years of Joe Biden’s term, during which new employed generation records were beaten.
