Unemployed entertainment workers in Las Vegas: new Covid-19 infections continue to spread across America, forcing authorities in some areas to reclose businessesThe number of Americans filing a new claim for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly back above one million last week, suggesting that the jobs market is still struggling to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose to a seasonally adjusted 1.1 million for the week ended August 15, from an upwardly revised 971,000 the previous week, according to figures from the US Labor Department published yesterday. The previous week’s level marked the first time since March that new claims registered were less than one million. The world’s largest economy has regained only 9.3 million of the 22 million jobs lost between February and April. The unemployment rate has fallen from a high of 14.7 per cent in April as businesses

Source: The Times August 20, 2020 22:52 UTC