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Here’s your unemployment update for Thursday, January 7th, 2021.

Happy Thursday, which means it’s time for the first weekly jobs report of the year from our good friends at the Department of Labor.

This week’s report once again displayed good news for the economy, as the actual unemployment figures were slightly lower than last week, and exceeded the estimates of those DOW Jones economists.

The weekly report showed that 787,000 Americans filed their first time unemployment claims, which is just a bit lower than the previous week’s 790,000 initial claims.

These numbers are also down from the 815,000 initial claims predicted by economists, making it 3 weeks in a row of decreasing weekly unemployment claims.

While the numbers are down just slightly from last week, I’ll gladly take small steps instead of steps backward with increasing initial claims.

Meanwhile, unemployment claimants from the great state of Georgia are suing the state’s Department of Labor due to “extreme delays” regarding the disbursement of unemployment benefits.