Over 11 Million Americans Are Still On Pandemic Jobless Benefits (Despite 9 Million Job Openings) Initial Jobless claims continued their slide week-over-week (from 385k to 376k), but remain near pandemic lows (but are still almost double those pre-pandemic levels)... Source: Bloomberg However, there are still over 15 million Americans on some form of government dole... Source: Bloomberg And despite over 9 million job openings, over 11 million Americans remain on some form of pandemic-specific unemployment benefits... Source: Bloomberg As the chart shows, there has been very little movement OFF the pandemic-based dole in over a year. Will the Democrats ever allow those couch-sitters to be free of government handouts? Tyler Durden Thu, 06/10/2021 - 08:55