Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued October 21 2016

This weeks’s jobless claims report showed a notable increase to initial and a modest increase to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained well below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 13,000 to 260,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 7,000 to 2.057 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.5%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued September 15 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed modest increases to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained well below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 1,000 to 260,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 1,000 to 2.143 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued September 01 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained well below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 2,000 to 263,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 14,000 to 2.159 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued July 28 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 14,000 to 266,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 7,000 to 2.139 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued June 23 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained well below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 18,000 to 259,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims declined by 20,000 to 2.142 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued June 09 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 4,000 to 264,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims declined by 77,000 to 2.095 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.5%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued June 02 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a slight decline to initial and and increase to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 1,000 to 267,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 12,000 to 2.172 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued May19 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 16,000 to 278,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims declined by 13,000 to 2.152 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued May 05 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decrease to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 17,000 to 274,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims decreased by 8,000 to 2.121 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.5%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued April 07 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a decrease to initial unemployment claims and an increase to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 9,000 to 267,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 19,000 to 2.191 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued March 31 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decrease to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 11,000 to 276,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims decreased by 7,000 to 2.73 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued March 03 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 6,000 to 278,000 claims while seasonally adjusted "continued" unemployment claims increased by 3,000 to 2.257 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.7%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued February 25 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decrease to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 10,000 to 272,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims declined by 19,000 to 2.253 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.7%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued February 18 2016

Today’s jobless claims report showed a decrease to initial unemployment claims and an increase to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims declined by 7,000 to 262,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims increased by 30,000 to 2.273 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.7%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued December 31 2015

Today’s jobless claims report showed a notable increase to initial unemployment claims as well as an slight increase to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained just below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims jumped by 20,000 to 287,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims increased by 3,000 to 2.198 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.6%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued September 24 2015

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decrease to continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 3,000 to 267,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims declined by 1,000 to 2.242 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.7%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued March 05 2015

Today’s jobless claims report showed a an increase to both initial and insured unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained above the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased 7,000 to 320,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims increased by 17,000 to 2.421 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.8%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued February 26 2015

Today’s jobless claims report showed a notable increase to initial unemployment claims and a decrease to insured unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained above the 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims jumped 31,000 to 313,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “insured” claims declined by 21,000 to 2.401 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.8%.

Weekly Unemployment Claims: Initial and Continued September 25 2014

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the closely watched 300K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased 12,000 to 293,000 claims from 281,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 7,000 to 2.439 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 1.8%.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims December 19 2013

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to both initial and continued unemployment claims as seasonally adjusted initial claims climbed nearer to the closely watched 400K level.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased 10,000 to 379,000 claims from 369,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 94,000 claims to 2.884 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.2%.

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored “extended” unemployment benefit programs (the “extended benefits” and “EUC 2008” from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.

Currently there are some 1.37 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 2.95 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 4.33 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.