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Data from the Labor Department showed that more than 746,000 people filed first-time applications for state unemployment benefits last week.<\/p>\n


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By <\/span>Ben Casselman<\/span><\/p>\n

The wave of unemployment filings last March provided one of the first clear warnings of the havoc the pandemic was wreaking on the American economy.<\/p>\n

One year later, that klaxon is still blaring.<\/p>\n

More than 746,000 people filed first-time applications for state unemployment benefits last week, up 24,000 from the prior week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Another 282,000 filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, an emergency federal program that covers freelancers, self-employed workers and others who don\u2019t qualify for benefits in normal times. Neither total is adjusted for seasonal trends.<\/p>\n

On a seasonally adjusted basis, the figure for initial state claims was 770,000.<\/p>\n

Last week was the 52nd straight with elevated unemployment filings. In one week last March, applications jumped tenfold, from fewer than 300,000 to about three million. A week later, they topped six million, as businesses across the country shut down.<\/p>\n

The figures have fallen significantly since then but remain higher than in any previous recession, at least by some measures. And progress has stalled: Initial weekly claims under regular and emergency programs, combined, have been stuck at just above one million since last fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt goes up a little bit, it goes down, but really we haven\u2019t seen much progress,\u201d said AnnElizabeth Konkel, an economist for the career site Indeed. \u201cA year into this, I\u2019m starting to wonder, what is it going to take to fix the magnitude problem? How is this going to actually end?\u201d<\/p>\n

Most forecasters expect the labor market recovery to accelerate in coming months, as warmer weather and rising vaccination rates allow more businesses to reopen, and as new government aid encourages Americans to go out and spend. Policymakers at the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that they expected the unemployment rate to fall to 4.5 percent by the end of the year, a significant upgrade over the 5 percent they forecast three months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already starting to see improvement now, and I think that will start to accelerate fairly quickly,\u201d said Daniel Zhao, an economist at the career site Glassdoor. He called the increase in claims last week a \u201chiccup,\u201d possibly caused by data quirks in specific states, rather than a more serious sign of erosion in the job market.<\/p>\n

A rebound can\u2019t come too soon for rising share of job seekers who are classified as long-term unemployed. As of late February, nearly six million people were enrolled in federal extended-benefit programs that cover people who have exhausted their regular benefits, which last for six months in most states. The aid package signed by President Biden last week ensures that those programs will continue until fall, but benefits alone won\u2019t prevent the damage that prolonged joblessness can do to workers\u2019 careers and mental and physical health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recovery needs to be on the scale of being a once-in-a-generation economic upswing to really pull those people back into the labor market,\u201d Ms. Konkel said.<\/p>\n

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