{"id":25103,"date":"2020-05-21T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25103"},"modified":"2020-05-21T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T03:15:36","slug":"2-4m-more-americans-join-jobless-rolls-pushing-pandemic-total-to-38-6m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25103","title":{"rendered":"2.4M more Americans join jobless rolls, pushing pandemic total to 38.6M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Layoffs fueled by the coronavirus pandemic continue to mount, even as more states allow businesses to reopen after ordering them to shut to slow the spread of the virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">About 2.4\u00a0million Americans filed initial unemployment benefit claims last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as the health and economic crisis sparked by the coronavirus ruptures a growing number of industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In just nine weeks, 38.6 million have sought jobless benefits that\u00a0represent the nation\u2019s most reliable gauge of layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">There were encouraging signs in the labor report.\u00a0The latest claims tally was down from the 3 million who filed claims the week before, and the record 6.9 million who sought assistance in late March. Initial applications for unemployment insurance have now steadily declined seven weeks in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layoffs fueled by the coronavirus pandemic&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25104,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25103\/revisions\/25104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}