UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending June 30, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 318,000, an increase of 2,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 316,000. The 4-week moving average was 318,500, an increase of 1,750 from the previous week's revised average of 316,750.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.0 percent for the week ending June 23, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week's unrevised rate of 1.9 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 23 was 2,569,000, an increase of 84,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 2,485,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,513,750, an increase of 9,750 from the preceding week's revised average of 2,504,000.  

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 298,156 in the week ending June 30, an increase of 6,847 from the previous week. There were 304,638 initial claims in the comparable week in 2006.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.8 percent during the week ending June 23, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 2,360,918, an increase of 82,116 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 1.7 percent and the volume was 2,261,568.

Extended benefits were not available in any state during the week ending June 16.

Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,277 in the week ending June 23, an increase of 49 from the prior week. There were 1,668 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, an increase of 38 from the preceding week.

There were 10,918 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending June 16, a decrease of 966 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 21,215, an increase of 348 from the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending June 16 were in Puerto Rico (3.3 percent), Alaska (3.0), Michigan (2.6), Pennsylvania (2.6), Arkansas (2.5), New Jersey (2.5), Oregon (2.3), Rhode Island (2.3), California (2.2), Massachusetts (2.2), and Wisconsin (2.2).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending June 23 were in New Jersey (+5,187), Massachusetts (+4,539), Connecticut (+1,758), Michigan (+1,319), and New York (+1,074), while the largest decreases were in Pennsylvania (-4,255), North Carolina (-2,203), Wisconsin (-1,740), Illinois
(-1,501), and South Carolina (-1,071).

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 131,660,675 as denominator.

UNADJUSTED INITIAL CLAIMS FOR WEEK ENDED 06/23/2007 

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