{"id":50049,"date":"2020-12-04T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-colorado-unemployment-claims-double-under-covid-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2020-12-05T00:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:59:38","slug":"new-colorado-unemployment-claims-double-under-covid-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-colorado-unemployment-claims-double-under-covid-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Colorado unemployment claims double under COVID restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=114fc86b-d75d-47dc-96fa-4c725f53fb2e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1061\" alt=\"A line of greenhouse buildings for dining use during the coronavirus pandemic serve customers for the Annette Restaurant at the Stanley Marketplace on Nov. 7 in Aurora.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A line of greenhouse buildings for dining use during the coronavirus pandemic serve customers for the Annette Restaurant at the Stanley Marketplace on Nov. 7 in Aurora.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Kathryn Scott\/Special to The Colorado Sun<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The number of newly out-of-work Coloradans has tripled since new COVID restrictions went into effect in mid-November.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2020\/12\/03\/colorado-unemployment-claims-covid-restrictions-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">32,000 workers filed a claim<\/a> for regular benefits in the two weeks that ended Nov. 28, while another 21,600 self-employed or gig workers filed for pandemic benefits. That\u2019s about double the number from the two weeks prior, and nearly triple the number from the two weeks before that.<\/p>\n<p>Back on Nov. 17, Gov. Jared Polis introduced new coronavirus red-level restrictions aimed at avoiding a shutdown like the one imposed last spring. More than 20 counties hit the red level within days.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant industry warned that there would be layoffs and if more restaurants shutter because they\u2019re unable to survive another round of closed dining rooms, the impact could be \u201ctens of thousands of jobs lost,\u201d Laura Shunk, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Restaurant Association, said in an interview at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the top industries with new job losses were accommodation and <a href=\"\">food service, which made up 20.2%<\/a> of all claims, according to the state Department of Labor and Employment.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported, journalist-owned news outlet exploring issues of statewide interest. Sign up for a newsletter and read more at coloradosun.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_headline2-18\"><a href=\"\">Read more at The Colorado Sun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>restaurants are affected most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[233,685,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coloradosun-com","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50049"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}