Fewer Nevadans filed for initial and continued unemployment benefits last week, according to new data released by the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
DETR says 8,032 initial claims were filed, 826 fewer claims from the previous week. DETR says that the's fewest initial claims since the week ending March 14th when there were 6,356.Â
Through the week ending August 29th, there have been 670,400 initial claims filed in 2020 - 662,368 of which have been filed since that March 14th week.
More than 10,410 Nevadans also initially filed for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance last week, a decrease of 460 compared to the previous week.
Continued claims also fell for a third straight week to 221,599, a decline of 6,604 claims, from the previous week’s total of 228,203. This is the fewest continued claims since the report week ending April 11 when there were 189,007 claims filed.
PUA continued claims totaled 104,592 in the week ending August 29, a decline of 11,878 from the previous week’s revised total of 116,470.
Meanwhile, U.S. unemployment dropped sharply in August to a still-high 8.4% from 10.2%, with about half the 22 million jobs lost to the coronavirus outbreak recovered so far, the government said Friday in one of the last major economic reports before Election Day.
Employers added 1.4 million jobs last month, the Labor Department said, down from 1.7 million in July and the fewest since hiring resumed in May.
The economy has recovered barely half the 22 million jobs that vanished when the pandemic paralyzed the nation in early spring.
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