Les inscriptions au chômage sont reparties à la hausse la semaine passée aux États-Unis.
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The surge in contaminations in the United States has pushed unemployment up for the first time since the end of March and Congress is trying to find common ground on extending crucial aid for the unemployed, which will end in a week.
As a result, the number of newly unemployed has increased again, for the first time since the start of its slow decline in early April. Just over 1.4 million applications were filed between July 12 and July 18, up from 1.307 million the week before.
And "a second increase should follow next week, before requests do not settle again", anticipates Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.
The last week of March still holds the all-time high: 6.6 million new unemployed.
In total, just over 16 million Americans were registered as unemployed in early July, and nearly 32 million including all those who are compensated because their self-employment has been reduced to nothing with the pandemic.
“The risk of repeated business closures is that temporary job losses will become permanent. This could lead to a slower (economic) recovery, ”warns Rubeela Farooqi of High Frequency Economics.
However, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow assured Thursday on Fox News that he saw "no break in the downward trend in unemployment" initiated since April.
For the unemployed, the arrival of August marks above all the end of crucial aid put in place since April, as part of the American recovery plan of the Trump administration and Congress in the face of the pandemic.
Trump will not be happy. But let's say it's kind of his fault.