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The four-week average of claims, which smooths out some of the weekly ups and downs, rose by 2,500 to 238,000. The total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits for the week of July 20 jumped by 33,000 to 1.88 million. The four-week average for continuing claims rose to 1,857,000, the most since December of 2021.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week, another sign that the job market remains resilient in the face of high interest rates. Jobless claims dropped by 7,000 to ...
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 227,000 for the week ended Aug. 10, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 222,000 last week, down 10,000 claims from 232,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Louisiana saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
Sahm rule 1949-2024. In macroeconomics, the Sahm rule, or Sahm rule recession indicator, is a heuristic measure by the United States' Federal Reserve for determining when an economy has entered a recession. [ 1] It is useful in real-time evaluation of the business cycle and relies on monthly unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Jobless claims. Initial jobless claims are a data point issued by the U.S. Department of Labor as part of its weekly Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report. Initial jobless claims refer to claims for unemployment benefits filed by unemployed individuals with state unemployment agencies. Initial claims should not be confused with the number ...
MATT OTT. June 13, 2024 at 10:46 AM. The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits jumped to the highest level in 10 months last week, a sign that the labor market is likely cooling under ...
Unemployment rate by jurisdiction. Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [ 4] and Puerto Rico [ 5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but ...