Americans filed 1.2 million new jobless claims last week. These Democrats want to help.

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By Donna Provencher -March 4, 2021 3:00 PM
The country has 10 million fewer jobs than it did a year ago.

A new Labor Department report released Thursday notes that a total of 1.2 million Americans filed jobless claims for the first time last week, when adjusted to include seasonal, self-employed, or gig workers.

Some Senate Democrats are urging President Joe Biden to provide those people with more financial support, above and beyond what would be provided by the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, in the form of recurring direct payments during the pandemic.

Some 745,000 of the claims were individuals newly applying for ordinary unemployment benefits, a figure higher than last week's and three times what it was at the same time last year, while the other 436,696 applied for special pandemic unemployment benefits available to gig economy workers and other independent contractors.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/us-jobless-claims-democratic-senators-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-jerome-powell-budget-committee/