More Utahns file for unemployment
More Utahns filed for unemployment benefits as the economy continues to reel from the coronavirus pandemic.
Numbers from the Department of Workforce services show another 71-hundred Utahns filed initial claims last week.
Since the pandemic began, nearly 174-thousand people have filed for unemployment in the state.
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