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Initial claims for state unemployment benefits fell 17,000 to a seasonally adjusted 233,000 for the week ended Aug. 3, the Labor Department said on Thursday, the largest drop in about 11 months.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 224,000 for the week ended Nov. 30, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had ...
The weekly jobless claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday, the most timely data on the economy's health, also showed jobless rolls shrunk to levels last seen in early June. The U.S ...
The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims for the week ending June 22 fell by 6,000 to 233,000 from 239,000 the previous week. US weekly jobless claims fall, but the total number ...
The jobless claims report is generally monitored closely as one of the few weekly labor market indicators produced by the government. The closely watched Employment Situation Summary from the Bureau of Labor Statistics , colloquially referred to as the "jobs report", is only produced monthly.
Since this statistic is published weekly, it is commonly depended on as a current indicator of the labor market and the economy generally. In 2016, the number of people on unemployment benefits fell to around 2.14 million, the lowest in the last 4 decades. [65] In April 2020, claims reached 40 million, a new all-time high. [citation needed]
The four-week average of weekly claims, which quiets some of the weekly volatility, rose by 750 to 218,250. Weekly applications for jobless benefits are considered a proxy for U.S. layoffs.
Each Member State of the European Union has its own system and, in general, a worker should claim unemployment benefits in the country where they last worked. For a person working in a country other than their country of residency (a cross-border worker), they will have to claim benefits in their country of residence. [24]