United States Continuing Jobless Claims

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States decreased to 1653 thousand in the week ending April 6 of 2019 from 1716 thousand in the previous week. Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States averaged 2670.53 Thousand from 1967 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 6635 Thousand in May of 2009 and a record low of 988 Thousand in May of 1969.

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States is expected to be 1610.00 Thousand by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States to stand at 1650.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Continuing Jobless Claims is projected to trend around 1700.00 Thousand in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-03-28	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1756K	1743K	1750K	1780K
2019-04-04	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1717K	1755K	1750K	1760K
2019-04-11	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1713K	1726K	1738K	1726K
2019-04-18	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims	1653K	1716K	1720K	1725K
2019-04-25	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims		1653K	1720K
2019-05-02	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims
2019-05-09	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.80	3.80	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	196.00	33.00	1118.00	-1959.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	182.00	28.00	1092.00	-811.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	14.00	5.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	-6.00	1.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	192.00	197.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1653.00	1716.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	129.00	197.00	360.00	-706.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	156748.00	156949.00	156949.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6211.00	6235.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.10	0.40	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.40	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	63.00	63.20	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.80	0.78	4.40	0.08	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.80	8.90	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.78	109.25	109.78	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	106.10	105.61	106.10	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6708.00	7484.00	7484.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7087.00	7625.00	7626.00	2264.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	60587.00	76835.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	23.24	23.18	23.24	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.20	4.24	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.93	21.91	21.94	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.70	0.80	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Employment Rate	60.60	60.70	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	129969.00	130159.00	130159.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	26938.00	26878.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2380.00	2270.00	2380.00	2160.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1660.00	1560.00	1660.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]

Continuing Jobless Claims refer to actual number of unemployed and currently receiving unemployment benefits who filed for unemployment benefits at least two weeks ago. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Continuing Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United States Continuing Jobless Claims - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.