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May 9, 2024 at 8:03 AM. By Lucia Mutikani. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week to the highest level in more than eight...
Each Thursday, the Department of Labor issues the Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report. Its headline number is the seasonally adjusted estimate for initial unemployment claims filed during the previous week in the US.
May 9, 2024 at 9:34 AM. Aaron M. Sprecher/AP. First-time applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 231,000, the highest level since August, in another sign that the white-hot...
Nonfarm payrolls likely increased by 200,000 jobs last month after rising by 275,000 in February, according to a Reuters survey. The unemployment rate is forecast unchanged at 3.9%. Labor market...
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.
Coronavirus closures. In March 2020, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, American unemployment saw a huge increase; claims in one week rose to 3.3 million from 281,000 on the previous week. The previous record for unemployment claims in one week was only about one fifth as high, at 695,000 claims in 1982.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000 for the week ended May 11, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast ...
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In August, the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, up from 3.5% and the highest since February 2022. Economists had expected unemployment to remain unchanged at 3.5%.
According to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Report, the unemployment rate in India has dropped to 7.2% in the October–December quarter of 2022. This marks a significant improvement from the previous quarter, which had a rate of 8.1%.