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After a significant jump in first-time unemployment claims for the week ending January 2nd, they dropped more than 8% last week to a little more than 27,000. In Chelan County, there was a slight drop in initial applicants, which broke a two-week stretch of increases ...

First-time unemployment claims dropped 10% in Washington last week compared to the one prior. The state Employment Security Department says total claims also dropped by 6.6%. It continues a three-week trend for initial applicants being lower than the week before ...

Initial unemployment claims across most of North Central Washington and the state were down last week, some seeing the lowest the numbers they've had since mid-March. One of those counties was Douglas which saw it's fewest number of first-time applicants since mid-March with 85 ...

First-time unemployment claims in North Central Washington and the state dropped last week when compared to the one prior according to the state's Employment Security Department. Chelan County had 200 initial applications, the second-lowest number since the pandemic began ...

First-time unemployment claims were up in Washington 10.1% for the week ending Sept. 5th compared to the previous week to 20,0006. But in good news, it was down 6.5% overall to 531, 425 according to numbers released Thursday by the state Employment Security Department ...

First-time unemployment claims were down 27% while total claims were down nearly 5% last week in Washington according to the Employment Security Department. Chelan County saw a minor drop in initial claims, down about 30. Douglas County was practically flat, down just six ...

Washington State Auditor Pat McCarthy announced last week that she would be launching two separate audits into the Employment Security Department (ESD) after considerable delays in benefit payments and hundreds of millions of dollars lost to fraud ...

Initial unemployment claims in Washington last week were less than 30,000 for the first time since mid-March and the state saw its fourth consecutive week of declines. The Employment Security Department (ESD) says there were also fewer overall claims by about 46,000 ...

Initial unemployment claims in Washington dropped for a second straight week and are now one-sixth of their peak in late March. The State Employment Security Department says 31,224 Washingtonians applied for benefits for the first time last week, though total claims were 774,959 ...

New unemployment claims in Washington were less than 100,000 for just the second time since mid-March, and the first time they've been below 50,000. The Employment Security Department says 48,445 state residents filed their first unemployment claims in the week ending May 23rd ...