WASHINGTON — More Americans used for unemployed advantages last week as the number of outofwork continues to increase decently, though the labor market stays one of the greatest parts of the U.S. economy.
Applications for outofwork help for the week ending July 30 increased by 6,000 to 260,000 from the previous week’s 254,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. First-time applications usually show layoffs.
The four-week typical for declares, which evens out the weekly ups and downs, likewise increased from the previous week, to 254,750.
The overall number of Americans gathering unemployed advantages for the week ending July 23 increased by 48,000 from the previous week, to 1,416,000. That figure hasactually been near 50-year lows for months.
On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that American companies published less task openings in June as the economy competes with constantly high inflation and increasing interest rates.
Job openings fell to a still-high 10.7 million in June from 11.3 million