{"id":206278,"date":"2026-01-21T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206278"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:55:03","slug":"us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=206278","title":{"rendered":"US applications for jobless benefits fell below 200,000 last week with layoffs historically low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain low despite a weakening labor market. U.S. applications for jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 27 fell by 16,000 to 199,000 from the previous week\u2019s 215,000, the Labor Departme\u2026<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-5e0ab36c477fdb0e4924c3851b852725\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as layoffs remain low despite a weakening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low.jpg",1440,810,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low.jpg",1440,810,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low.jpg",1440,810,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/206278-us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-fell-below-200000-last-week-with-layoffs-historically-low-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}