“Jobless claims total 340,000, lowest level since early days of pandemic”
September 2, 2021
“Initial filings for unemployment insurance fell last week to their lowest levels since March 2020 in another sign that the labor market is gradually improving from the Covid-19 era, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
First-time jobless claims totaled 340,000 for the week ended Aug. 28, compared with the 345,000 Dow Jones estimate. That is the lowest level for initial claims since March 14, 2020, when first-time claims totaled 256,000, just before the coronavirus pandemic caused a historic rush to unemployment benefits.
The level of initial claims for the week ended Aug. 21 was revised up by 1,000, to 354,000. The level of continuing claims, the measure of ongoing benefits, was 2.75 million, a decrease of 160,000 from the previous week’s revised level…”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/02/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html