Jobless claims report shows another small decline

Today?s jobless claims report showed another small decline to initial unemployment claims and a flattening to continued unemployment claims. Seasonally adjusted initial claims continued to remain below the important 400K level.

By SoldAtTheTop,?Guest blogger / July 5, 2012

This chart shows extended and continued and total unemployment claims, charted over the past two years.Today's reports shows another decline to initial unemployment claims and a flattening to continued unemployment claims.

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Today?s jobless claims report showed a decline to initial unemployment claims and a flattening to continued unemployment claims while seasonally adjusted initial claims remained below the closely watched 400K level.

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Seasonally adjusted ?initial? declined to 374,000 claims from last week?s revised 388,000 claims while seasonally adjusted ?continued? claims went flat resulting in an ?insured? unemployment rate of 2.6%.

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 2.67 million people receiving federal ?extended? unemployment benefits.

Taken together with the latest 3.11 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.79 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.

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