نیویارک (پاکستان نیوز) ملک میں کورونا لاک ڈاﺅن کے بعد سے بے روزگاری کی تعداد میں تیزی سے اضافہ ہو رہا ہے ، حالیہ عدادو شمار کے مطابق ملک میں مجموعی طور پر 8لاکھ 60 ہزار سے زائد افراد نے بے روزگاری الاﺅنس کے لیے درخواستیں فائل کی ہیں ، بے روزگاروں کی تعداد میں پہلے کی نسبت بہت زیادہ کمی واقع ہوئی ہے ، کورونا لاک ڈاﺅن کے بعد بے روزگار افراد کی تعداد کافی زیادہ رہی جس میں اب بتدریج کمی آ رہی ہے ،
Continuing claims, which track ongoing joblessness on a one-week lag, also fell by 916,000 in the week ending Sept. 5 to about 12.6 million, their lowest level since their early May peak of 24.9 million, the figures show.
But people laid off in the spring who are still out of work may be exhausting the 26 weeks of unemployment benefits that states generally provide. That could lead to a jump in applications for the federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which provides another 13 weeks of payments, according to Bloomberg economist Eliza Winger.
The number of people claiming those benefits indeed rose by 104,683 to about 1.5 million in the week ending Aug. 29, the most recent for which figures are available. Some 29.7 million people were receiving some kind of unemployment aid that week, an increase of roughly 98,000 from the prior week, the feds said.
“All these factors add up to a situation where quick advances in driving down unemployment are stalling, and we can now expect tougher going, especially without more stimulus and a faster decline in COVID-19 cases,” said Robert Frick, corporate economist at Navy Federal Credit Union.
The latest jobless claims were filed in the same week as the federal employment survey that will be used to compile the closely watched September jobs report. The last report showed the economy adding 1.4 million jobs in August, down from 1.7 million in July.
