The number of jobless claims in the United States rose to 228,000 last week, 9,000 more than in the previous period, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
Despite the rebound from the 219,000 claims of the previous week, the number of applications for unemployment benefits remains at historically low levels, after registering records in the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The four-week average enrollment, a more reliable indicator, increased from 5,000 to 211,500. Last week, the Labor Department announced that the US unemployment rate had fallen to 3.5% in September, the level it was before the Covid-19 pandemic, but job creation has slowed. .
The US economy added 263,000 jobs last month, a slowdown from 315,000 in August, at a time when measures are taken to combat inflation that imply a slowdown in the labor market.
Source: TSF
