New Unemployment Insurance Claims for The Week of August 2, 2025

Jobless Claims

Earlier today, the Labor Department released its weekly report on New Jobless Insurance Claims for the week that ended on August 2, 2025:

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Predicted: 220,000

• Actual: 226,000

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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): 219,000

• 4-Week Moving Average: 220,750

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From Today's Report:

 "...The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.3 percent for the week ending July 26, unchanged from the previous week's unrevised rate. The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending July 26 was 1,974,000, an increase of 38,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the highest level for insured unemployment since November 6, 2021 when it was 2,041,000..."

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• Click here to view the full Labor Department report

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