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Jobless Claims Surge During COVID-19 Shutdown
Friday, May 8, 2020

As the COVID-19 restrictions begin to slowly roll back, the after effect of the "stay at home order" is prevalent among Indiana residents as almost 44,000 people applied for unemployment benefits within the state last week from business shutdowns caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

National statistics that were released on Thursday show Indiana has had about 612,000 people seek jobless aid over the past seven weeks. Last week’s applications were the fewest the state has received during that period, but still about 15 times more than Indiana’s weekly pace before the widespread business shutdowns began in mid-March.

Indiana Governor, Eric Holcomb’s new order easing some business restrictions across most of the state took effect this past Monday.



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