Christian Datoc
Senior White House Correspondent
May 28, 2020 9:01 AM ET
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 2.1 million new jobless claims were filed over the past week.
The latest data showed a roughly 323,000 decrease in claims from the previous week’s numbers, but the total number of claims filed since businesses shut down to combat the coronavirus pandemic now exceeds 40 million.
Labor’s report contained one apparent glimmer of hope, however. Continuing claims fell by more than 3 million to 21 million overall, marking the first decline in continuing claims during the pandemic. In other words, 3 million people who had previously filed unemployment claims during the pandemic — and continued receiving benefits for more than one weekly period — have reentered the workforce as multiple states, including Georgia, Florida, and Texas, have all begun the reopening process.
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