New jobless claims were up 778,000 for the week ending Nov. 21, an increase of 30,000 over the previous week, which was revised up by 6,000 to 748,000, according to the latest weekly Bureau of Labor Statistics report released on Wednesday (Nov. 25).
Almost 20.5 million people claimed benefits in all programs for the week ending Nov. 7, up 135,297 from the previous week. By contrast, just under 1.5 million claimed jobless benefits in all programs in a comparable week in 2019.
Nearly 9.2 million filed for Pandemic Unemployment for the week ending Nov. 7.
