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+ g8 j  |6 `0 z5 |& |8 w; j Some 787,000 people applied for first-time unemployment benefits the week ending December 26, the Labor Department said Thursday. That s a drop of 19,000 from the week before. Another 308,000 people applied for Pandemic Unemployment stanley cup  Assistance, a federal program for self-employed and gig workers. While the decline in total initial claims is movement  stanley cup in the right direction, they have not fallen below one million since this crisis began,  AnnElizabeth Konkel, economist at Indeed Hiring Lab, said in a note.Unemployment aid: When would the $300-per-week benefit beginSecond stimulus checks: IRS says the $600 payments are on their wayNine months after the pandemic began, employers continue to cut jobs as coronavirus infections continue to rise, keeping many people at home and  forcing state   and local governments to re-impose social distancing restrictions on businesses.                                         While new jobless claims last week were at a four-week low, the count over the Christmas holidays is still nearly four times higher than before the coronavirus struck. Economi stanley cup sts expect the number of claims to rise again now that jobless benefits have been extended. We think that holiday noise and uncertainty about extensions of  benefits may have held down claims last week, and the risk is for a rise  in claims in the weeks ahead now that emergency programs have been  extended and an additional $300 in weekly benefits is being provided,  economists at Oxford Economics said  Uxzr Ebola outbreak: Connecticut family sues after daughter barred from school
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Kyle Cook canrsquo;t decide whether hersquo really unlucky or incredibly fortunate.Over the past four years, the 31-year-old Florida man hassurvived a lightning strike, a bite by a venomous spider and - most recently -an attack by a rattlesnake in his backyard in Lakeland, southwest of Orlando.I need to get a  protective  bubble, Cook told The Ledger.                                        His father, Mike Cook, sees it another way. Hersquo  awalking Murphyrsquo  law, the elder Cook said. I air max  walk on the other sideof the mall.On Aug. 11, the younger Cook was almost finished cuttingthe grass at his familyrsquo  rented house when he heard a loud rattling sound.First he thought it was the buzzing of cicadas. Then, he thought the push mowermight be making the noise so he shut it off. Thatrsquo  when he saw the snakecoiled a stanley cup bout 3 feet from his right foot. He estimated it was about 5 feet longand had a girth the size of a soda can.        After briefly freezing in fear, Cook said he moved hisleft foot back and stepped on a stick. The noise apparentl jordan y provoked the snake,which struck his ankle.He says it happened fast. I didnrsquo;t even see it biteme, Cook said. I just screamed and ran to my wife.His wife, Sara, said she washed the wound and called thepoison control hotline. She then drove him to the emergency room at a Lakelandhospital.Cook, a self-professed bigger guy,