The Labor Department announced its weekly filings for unemployment benefits on Thursday. It showed that another 840,000 workers filed for unemployment. That makes the sixth week in a row that over 800,000 workers filed -- about 4 times the number that were filing before the Trump recession.
Here is the official announcement from the Labor Department:
In the week ending October 3, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 840,000, a decrease of 9,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 12,000 from 837,000 to 849,000. The 4-week moving average was 857,000, a decrease of 13,250 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 3,000 from 867,250 to 870,250.
