Unemployment claims in New Hampshire have dropped for the sixth straight week, reports WMUR.
While more than 2.4 million US citizens applied for unemployment this past week, only approximately 8,000 were from NH. Numbers have continued to drop week to week, from their nearly 40,000 citizens high, to the 8,333 citizens who applied this week. This number was a drop of approximately 2,000 from the week ending in May 9th.
According to Employment Security Deputy Commissioner Richard Lavers, NH currently doubles the rate of unemployment decline of the current national rate. He also reports that the number of unemployment claims paid out have dropped from 117,438 last week to 115,267 this week.
Lavers states that as more jobs begin to re-open, his department will begin to organize job fairs online, although they are not yet sure how to do this.
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