The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased moderately last week, consistent with ...

For an even shorter timeline, the chart below shows initial unemployment claims starting in 2022. As we can see, there's a good bit of volatility in this indicator, which is why the four-week ...

After two consecutive weeks of declining unemployment claims, initial jobless claims rose last week in Louisiana, following ...

The week through Feb. 1 brought 219,000 initial jobless claims, compared with 208,000 a week earlier. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had been forecasting 214,000 initial claims.

New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased by 11,000 to 219,000 in seven days ended Feb. 1, the government said. Anything below 250,000 is an exceptionally good reading. Unemployment ...

Thursday’s report on initial jobless claims shows they remain low, yet “the slow bleed in the labor market appears to be continuing,” according to Renaissance Macro Research’s Neil Dutta. The ...

More Americans filed unemployment claims last week, but the labor market remains healthy and there are still relatively few layoffs. U.S. applications for jobless benefits rose by 11,000 to ...

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 219,000 for the week ended February 1, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had ...