New Unemployment Insurance Claims for The Week of August 15, 2020
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Earlier today, the Labor Department released its weekly report on New Jobless Insurance Claims for the week that ended on August 15, 2020:
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Predicted: 1,200,000
- Actual: 1,106,000
The yellow-highlighted figure represents the number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits for the entire United States. The "predicted" figure is what economists were expecting, while the "actual" is the true or real figure.
- Previous Week (revised): 971,000
- 4-Week Moving Average: 1,175,750
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From This Morning's Report:
"...The COVID-19 virus continues to impact the number of initial claims and insured unemployment. This report includes information on claimants filing Pandemic Unemployment Assistance and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation claims..."
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Labels: Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, employment, hard_data, jobless, jobless_claims, jobs, layoffs, Pandemic, unemployment
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posted by Steve Brown | 8/20/2020 05:28:00 PM
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