(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

(Harrisburg, PA) According to the U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday, initial filings for unemployment benefits in Pennsylvania rose last week compared with the week prior. That department also confirmed that new jobless claims, which was a proxy for layoffs, went up to 15,805 in the week ending on December 19th, up from 14,668 the week before.