Nearly 129,000 Nebraskans Have Lost Their Jobs Since Mid-March
Nearly 5,900 Nebraska residents applied for unemployment benefits last week, a number that appears to be stabilizing after a record-setting surge driven by the coronavirus pandemic.
The new numbers bring the total number of claims in Nebraska to 129,000 since mid-March, although not all of those people are still unemployed. The number of claims in one week peaked at a record-shattering 26,788 during the week that ended April 4, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Last week, state officials received 5,875 new jobless claims. That’s up slightly from 5,839 the previous week, but down from the 6,408 reported the week before that.
Nebraska never imposed an official stay-at-home order, but mandated social distancing restrictions. Some of those restrictions have since been eased, and even more will be relaxed today.
Iowa saw a jump in the number of people filing for unemployment last week compared to the week prior.
The federal report released Thursday showed 14,586 new claims filed between May 17 and May 23. That was an increase from the previous week, when 13,040 people filed unemployment claims in Iowa.
Nationally, more than 2.1 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department. About 41 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the weeks since the coronavirus first forced millions of businesses to close their doors.
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