More than 824,000 Americans filed an IU application for the first time last week, the Department of Labor said Thursday, as the economic recovery that began this summer slows amid new regional coronavirus layoffs and outbreaks.

The most recent set of 824542 claims is particularly below the record of 6. 2 million people who filed claims for the first time in early spring, when they closed the maximum number of non-essential businesses to slow the spread of coronavirus. And in less than seven months, more than 57 million people have been deployed for unemployment assistance for the first time. The figures are not seasonally adjusted.

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