Jobless claims?declined by 5,000 to 330,000 claims from a revised 335,000 jobless claims for the prior week.
By SoldAtTheTop,?Guest blogger / January 24, 2013
This chart shows jobless claims since 2010. Currently, there are 5.56 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.
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Today?s jobless claims report?showed a decline to both initial and continued jobless claims as initial claims trended well below the closely watched 400K level.?
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Seasonally adjusted ?initial? unemployment claims declined by 5,000 to 330,000 claims from a revised 335,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted ?continued? claims declined by 71,000 claims to 3.157 million resulting in an ?insured? unemployment rate of 2.5%.?
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 1.69 million people receiving federal ?extended? unemployment benefits.?
Taken together with the latest 3.86 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.56 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.?
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