{"id":7137,"date":"2025-04-17T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2025-04-17T13:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:29:53","slug":"us-jobless-benefit-claims-fall-last-week-as-labor-market-remains-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7137","title":{"rendered":"US jobless benefit claims fall last week as labor market remains strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">WASHINGTON &#8212; <\/span>U.S. applications for jobless benefits fell again last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite fears of a tariff-induced recession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jobless claim applications fell by 9,000 to 215,000 for the week ending April 12, the Labor Department said Thursday. That\u2019s well below the 225,000 new applications analysts forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs, and have mostly stayed between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past few years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The four-week average of applications, which can soften some of the week-to-week swings, fell by 2,500 to 220,750.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The total number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for the week of April 5 jumped by 41,000 to 1.89 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. applications for jobless benefits fell again last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite fears of a tariff-induced recession. Jobless claim applications fell by 9,000 to 215,000 for the week ending April 12, the Labor Department said Thursday. That\u2019s well below the 225,000 new applications analysts forecast. Weekly applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7139,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}