UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending June 10, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 295,000, a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 303,000. The 4-week moving average was 315,750, a decrease of 12,250 from the previous week's revised average of 328,000.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.9 percent for the week ending June 3, unchanged from the prior week's unrevised rate of 1.9 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 3 was 2,425,000, an increase of 15,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 2,410,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,417,250, an increase of 10,750 from the preceding week's revised average of 2,406,500.  

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 284,137 in the week ending June 10, an increase of 23,908 from the previous week. There were 315,938 initial claims in the comparable week in 2005.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.7 percent during the week ending June 3, unchanged from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 2,230,627, an increase of 66,718 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 1.9 percent and the volume was 2,432,328.

Extended benefits were not available in any state during the week ending May 27.

Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,333 in the week ending June 3, an increase of 130 from the prior week. There were 1,674 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, a decrease of 92 from the preceding week.

There were 11,402 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending May 27, an increase of 618 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 25,456, a decrease of 301 from the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending May 27 were in Alaska (3.7 percent), Michigan (3.1), Puerto Rico (3.1), Pennsylvania (2.7), New Jersey (2.4), Oregon (2.3), Arkansas (2.2), Massachusetts (2.2), Connecticut (2.1), Rhode Island (2.1), and Wisconsin (2.1).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending June 3 were in Louisiana (+1,056), Tennessee (+725), Illinois (+569), Nebraska (+426), and Arizona (+249), while the largest decreases were in Michigan (-11,280), California (-6,122), New York (-2,466), Georgia (-2,242), and Texas (-2,136).

FOOTNOTES
SA - Seasonally Adjusted Data
NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted Data
¹ - Prior year is comparable to most recent data.
² - Most recent week used covered employment of 129,381,803 as denominator.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED 06/03/2006 

STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000 

State Detail Prior Week
UI Claims Series 1967 to current