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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 ...

The number of Washingtonians filing their first claim for unemployment rose for the third straight week to nearly 138,733 the fourth-highest total ever. There were also increase in initial claims for Chelan, Douglas, Grant and Okanogan Counties for the week ending May 16th ...

More than 1 million Washingtonians collected unemployment last week in data released Thursday by the Employment Security Department. 100,762 state residents applied for their initial claim, a drop of nearly 40,000 from the previous week ...

82,345 Washingtonians filed their first claims for unemployment last week, a drop of more than 60,000 people. In North Central Washington Chelan County saw a drop of about 400 to 740 new claims. Douglas County dropped more than 200 to 334 ...

Nearly 800 fewer Chelan County residents filed their initial unemployment claim last week than the week prior. Douglas County saw a decline of 250 initial claims while Grant County dropped from a little more than 15-hundred to just 900 ...

The Washington State Employment Security Department released the latest county unemployment numbers Tuesday. Chelan County had 5.2 percent unemployment in December while Douglas County had six percent, both worse than the state average, but more than a half-percent better than December of last year...

From a press release - Washington’s economy added 4,100 jobs in June and the state’s seasonally adjusted monthly unemployment rate for June was 4.7 percent according to the Employment Security Department. The June unemployment rate was unchanged from May 2018 unemployment rate of 4.7 percent. ...