Jobless claims rise by 4,000
Jobless claims increased by 4,000 to 352,000 claims from 348,000 claims for the prior week, according to Thursday's jobless claims report.
Seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims increased by 4,000 to 352,000 claims from 348,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted continued claims declined by 35,000 claims to 3.068 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.4 percent.
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Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decline to continued unemployment claims as initial claims trended well below the closely watched 400K level.
Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment claims increased by 4,000 to 352,000 claims from 348,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 35,000 claims to 3.068 million resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.4%.
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 1.78 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.
Taken together with the latest 3.29 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.07 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.