(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE—In this file photo from May 5, 2021, a vehicle speeds by a hiring sign offering a $500 bonus outside a McDonalds restaurant, in Cranberry Township, Butler County, Pa. Pennsylvania will resume work search requirements in July for hundreds of thousands of people receiving unemployment compensation, a top Wolf administration official said Monday, May 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Washington, D.C.) The U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday that filings that were initial for benefits of unemployment in Pennsylvania went up last week compared to the week before that week. That same department also said that new claims without jobs increased in Pennsylvania from 9,469 on the week ending July 26th, 2025 to 9,844 the week ending August 2nd, 2025. Unemployment claims in the United States went up from 219,000 the week ending on July 26th, 2025 to 226,000 the week ending August 2nd, 2025 on a basis that is adjusted seasonally.