Breaking: About 4.4 million Americans sought unemployment benefits last week in a continuation of a historic labor-market decline
WASHINGTON—Millions of Americans sought unemployment benefits last week in a continuation of a historic labor-market decline.
About 4.4 million Americans applied for jobless benefits in the week ended April 18, the Labor Department said Thursday. Jobless claims, which are laid-off workers’ applications for unemployment insurance payments, had reached 5.2 million a week earlier. Since the coronavirus pandemic triggered widespread shutdowns in mid-March, workers have filed more than 26 million unemployment insurance claims....
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