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Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can supp stanley usa ort this mission by purchasing a digital subscription.More Mainers filed for unemployment last week than in the record-setting previous week as the new coronavirus outbreak places the U.S. economy under immense stress at an unprecedented pace.New unemployment insurance claims in Maine and nationally rose again last week as Gov. Janet Mills clamped down on activities at nonessential businesses and Portland and South Portland issued stay-at-home orders for residents. On Tuesday, the governor issued a stay-at-home order for the entire state that took effect Thursday morning. [Our COVID-19 tracker contains the most recent information on Maine cases by county]Unemployed workers in the state submitted 23,761 new claims for the week fr owala water bottle om March 22 to 28, up from the previous weeks 21,459, according to Maine Department of Labor data released Thursday. In the week from March 8 to 14, before strict limits were placed on business activity, the claims were 634. Initial claims averaged 800 in the same week in 2018 and 2019.Last weeks claims were more than quadruple the high of 5,6 owala ca 34 new weekly claims set during the Great Recession in 2009. Continued claims increased to 45,700 from 30,200 the previous week.[iframe url=https://docs.google/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTDfGmAgtGiOsofrqnhulLAtoL9G9U-qk80IxAuyTGsaGHntlanVO25AQWdAy4oA9YDpKQjCF_DCn4s/pubchart oid=2042874607amp;format=inte |
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