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The 13-week extension to regular state unemployment benefits was set to expire when the state’s three-month average unemployment rate fell below 6.5%. The November rate dropped to 6% from 6.4% ...
Weekly unemployment claims continued their downward trend for the third week, the week ending Feb. 5. The advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 223,000. This figure represents a...
Each week's report includes data for the week ending on the preceding Saturday of the report's release, providing a measure of labor market activity less than a week after it occurs. By comparison, the monthly Employment Situation Summary's survey reference period is the week or the pay period including the 12th day of the month, [ 2 ] which ...
U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 212,000 last week, down 8,000 claims from 220,000 the week prior on a seasonally adjusted basis. Kentucky saw the largest percentage increase in weekly claims ...
In the United States, there is a standard of 26 weeks of unemployment compensation, known as "regular unemployment insurance (UI) benefits".As of December 2020, the U.S. has three programs for extending unemployment benefits: [1] Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC), Extended Benefits (EB), and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC).
The unemployment rate (U-6) is a wider measure of unemployment, which treats additional workers as unemployed (e.g., those employed part-time for economic reasons and certain "marginally attached" workers outside the labor force, who have looked for a job within the last year, but not within the last 4 weeks).
A delay in a new stimulus deal kills any hopes of extending enhanced unemployment benefits — like the $600 weekly benefit provided via the CARES Act that ended in July and the subsequent $300 to ...
Beveridge curve of vacancy rate and unemployment rate data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. A Beveridge curve, or UV curve, is a graphical representation of the relationship between unemployment and the job vacancy rate, the number of unfilled jobs expressed as a proportion of the labour force. It typically has vacancies on ...