Unemployment claims are 'trending in the wrong direction' and are back above 1 million

Unemployment applications are seen 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.
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Weekly unemployment claims recently dipped below one million for the first time in months, but they didn't stay below that threshold for long.

The Labor Department on Thursday said that 1.1 million Americans filed new unemployment claims last week, The Wall Street Journal reports. There were 971,000 new claims a week prior, which was the first time since March the number of claims had been below one million.

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Brendan Morrow

Brendan worked as a culture writer at The Week from 2018 to 2023, covering the entertainment industry, including film reviews, television recaps, awards season, the box office, major movie franchises and Hollywood gossip. He has written about film and television for outlets including Bloody Disgusting, Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Heavy and The Celebrity Cafe.