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After two weeks of declines since hitting a peak the week ending April 4, the Alabama Department of Labor announced this morning that initial unemployment claims trended upward again for the week ending April 25, as another 74,966 people sought unemployment benefits.
Strikingly, this brings the total number of claims filed since mid-March to more than 400,000 statewide, or roughly 18.15 percent of the state’s total civilian labor force. But only 362,280 claims since the week ending March 28 have been determined to be “COVID-19 related,” which ADOL Communications Director Tara Hutchison explained is a self-reported feature of the application process.
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