{"id":566908,"date":"2021-06-17T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566908"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:52:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T16:52:20","slug":"report-spike-in-new-jobless-claims-driven-entirely-by-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-spike-in-new-jobless-claims-driven-entirely-by-blue-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Spike In New Jobless Claims Driven Entirely By Blue States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-spike-in-new-jobless-claims-driven-entirely-by-blue-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227910666.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>The number of new jobless claims in the United States last week substantially passed economists\u2019 expectations \u2014 a trend that was effectively driven by blue states alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Department of Labor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jobless-claims-increase-again-pausing-downward-trend-with-biggest-jump-since-march\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> showed that \u201cin the week ending June 12, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 412,000, an increase of 37,000 from the previous week\u2019s revised level.\u201d The figure exceeded economists\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/17\/us-weekly-jobless-claims.html\"><span>forecasts<\/span><\/a><span> by nearly 15%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The data also reveal that two blue states essentially accounted for \u2014 and slightly exceeded \u2014 the nation\u2019s net increase. Indeed, Pennsylvania and California alone produced 21,590 and 15,712 new unemployment benefits requests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The two states \u2014 which currently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-some-red-states-economies-already-stronger-than-they-were-before-covid\"><span>rank<\/span><\/a><span> 43rd and 42nd in economic recovery following particularly aggressive lockdown policies \u2014 continue to greenlight enhanced federal unemployment benefits. Other states that are still offering enhanced benefits likewise saw rises in joblessness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kentucky \u2014 under the leadership of Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) \u2014 followed Pennsylvania and California with 9,127 jobless claims. Despite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/news\/kentucky-employers-urge-gov-beshear-to-end-federal-unemployment-benefits\/article_104f346a-c3f1-11eb-a3e0-a3f1cc1c9fef.html\"><span>pleas<\/span><\/a><span> from business owners, the Democratic governor currently does not plan to nix the higher benefits. Likewise, Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) \u2014 despite Wisconsin\u2019s 1,339 new claims \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/gov-tony-evers-defends-additional-dollar300-a-week-in-federal-unemployment\/36598979\"><span>defended<\/span><\/a><span> the state\u2019s continual offering of enhanced unemployment insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Florida and Texas respectively saw 2,337 and 2,089 claim increases. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) have both announced that their states will not leave the augmented federal program until June 26.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With 1,240 and 1,046 claims, Oklahoma and Maryland are respectively ending enhanced benefits on June 27 and July 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Governors who have ended their states\u2019 participation in the heightened federal benefits <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/these-21-states-are-opting-out-of-enhanced-unemployment-benefits-heres-what-you-need-to-know\"><span>explained<\/span><\/a><span> that encouraging labor market recovery is of paramount importance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe programs were implemented to assist the unemployed during the pandemic when businesses were laying off employees and jobs were scarce,\u201d said Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AK). \u201cAs we emerge from COVID-19, retail and service companies, restaurants, and industry are attempting to return to prepandemic unemployment levels, but employees are as scarce today as jobs were a year ago. The $300 federal supplement helped thousands of Arkansans make it through this tough time, so it served a good purpose. Now we need Arkansans back on the job so that we can get our economy back to full speed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of new jobless claims in the United States last week substantially passed economists\u2019 expectations \u2014 a trend that was effectively driven by blue states alone.A Department of Labor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280593,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227910666.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Spike In New Jobless Claims Driven Entirely By Blue States","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1227910666.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Spike In New Jobless Claims Driven Entirely By Blue States","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}