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Jobless Claims At a Glance

• Initial Claims: 524,000
• Change from Last Week: Up 54,000
• 4-Week Moving Average: 518,500
• Insured Unemployment Rate: 3.4%
• Insured Unemployment: 4,497,000

All numbers seasonally adjusted.

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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT
          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending Jan. 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 524,000, an increase of 54,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 470,000. The 4-week moving average was 518,500, a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week’s revised average of 526,500.
The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.4 percent for the week ending Jan. 3, unchanged from the prior week’s unrevised rate of 3.4 percent.
The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending Jan. 3 was 4,497,000, a decrease of 115,000 from the preceding week’s revised level of 4,612,000. The 4-week moving average was 4,497,750, an increase of 27,500 from the preceding week’s revised average of 4,470,250.  
UNADJUSTED DATA
The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 952,151 in the week ending Jan. 10, an increase of 220,205 from the previous week. There were 547,506 initial claims in the comparable week in 2008.
The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 4.4 percent during the week ending Jan. 3, an increase of 0.4 percentage point from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 5,832,746, an increase of 515,294 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 2.6 percent and the volume was 3,508,053.
Extended benefits were available in North Carolina, Oregon, and Rhode Island during the week ending Dec. 27.
Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,435 in the week ending Jan. 3, an increase of 15 from the prior week. There were 1,544 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 428 from the preceding week.
There were 19,697 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending Dec. 27, an increase of 553 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 25,890, an increase of 1,802 from the prior week.
States reported 1,653,523 persons claiming EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) benefits for the week ending Dec. 27, a decrease of 268,974 from the prior week.
The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending Dec. 27 were in Oregon (7.4 percent), Michigan (6.6), Idaho (6.3), Wisconsin (6.0), South Carolina (5.4), Arkansas (5.3), Nevada (5.2), Pennsylvania (5.2), Indiana (5.1), and Montana (5.1).
The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending Jan. 3 were in New York (+24,465), North Carolina (+19,749), Georgia (+18,308), South Carolina (+14,905), and Virginia (+7,362), while the largest decreases were in California (-14,796), Kansas (-13,313), Michigan (-11,956), Illinois (-9,727), and Ohio (-7,499).

Source: Employment and Training Administration