United States Continuing Jobless Claims

Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States decreased to 1661 thousand in the week ending September 7 of 2019 from 1674 thousand in the previous week. Continuing Jobless Claims in the United States averaged 2662.64 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 1630.00 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 1680.00 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
2019-08-29	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Aug/17	1698K	1676K	1680K
2019-09-05	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Aug/24	1662K	1701K	1685K	1691K
2019-09-12	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Aug/31	1670K	1674K	1690K	1670K
2019-09-19	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Sep/07	1661K	1674K	1672K	1677K
2019-09-26	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Sep/14		1661K	1672K
2019-10-03	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Sep/21
2019-10-10	12:30 PM	Continuing Jobless Claims Sep/28

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.70	3.70	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	130.00	159.00	1118.00	-1959.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	96.00	131.00	1092.00	-1766.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	34.00	28.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	3.00	4.00	655.00	-1715.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	208.00	206.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1661.00	1674.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	195.00	142.00	360.00	-706.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	157878.00	157288.00	157878.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6044.00	6063.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.40	0.30	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.40	34.30	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	63.20	63.00	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.71	0.87	4.40	0.08	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.60	8.50	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	111.98	111.28	111.98	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	107.54	106.93	107.54	25.99	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	7471.00	7225.00	7884.00	2157.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7217.00	7248.00	7626.00	2264.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	53480.00	38845.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	23.59	23.46	23.59	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	22.19	22.13	22.19	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	5.20	5.45	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.60	0.70	2.00	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	327.17	325.15	327.17	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		[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Employment Rate	60.90	60.70	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	130789.00	130429.00	130789.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	26974.00	26861.00	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	[+]

United States Continuing Jobless Claims

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 September of 2019.