Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims December 08 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed notable declines to both initial and continued unemployment claims as a slight rising trend was firmly called into question for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment declined 23,000 to 381,000 claims from last week’s revised 404,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 174,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.8%.

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 3.30 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.16 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.47 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims November 03 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed an decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as a slight rising trend was called into question for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment declined 9,000 to 397,000 claims from last week’s revised 406,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 15,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.9%.

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 3.48 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.19 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.68 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims October 27 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed an decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as a slight rising trend was called into question for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment declined 2,000 to 402,000 claims from last week’s revised 404,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 96,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.9%.

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 3.44 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.13 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.58 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims October 13 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed an decline to both initial and continued unemployment claims as a slight rising trend was called into question for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment declined 1,000 to 404,000 claims from last week’s revised 405,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 55,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 2.9%.

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 3.55 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.16 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 6.71 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims September 15 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed an increase to initial unemployment claims and a decline to continued unemployment claims as a slight rising trend began to materialize for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment increased 11,000 to 428,000 claims from last week’s revised 417,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims declined by 12,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 3.0%.

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 3.60 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.43 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 7.04 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

Extended Unemployment: Initial, Continued and Extended Unemployment Claims May 05 2011

Today’s jobless claims report showed a stark jump to initial unemployment claims and an increase to continued unemployment claims as a notable rising trend continued to materialize for initial claims.

Seasonally adjusted “initial” unemployment increased by 43,000 to 474,000 claims from last week’s revised 431,000 claims while seasonally adjusted “continued” claims increased by 74,000 resulting in an “insured” unemployment rate of 3.0%.

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 4.12 million people receiving federal “extended” unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.78 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 7.90 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.