UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

          SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending July 7, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 308,000, a decrease of 12,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 320,000. The 4-week moving average was 317,750, a decrease of 1,500 from the previous week's revised average of 319,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.9 percent for the week ending June 30, unchanged from the prior week's revised rate of 1.9 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 30 was 2,554,000, a decrease of 4,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 2,558,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,528,500, an increase of 17,500 from the preceding week's revised average of 2,511,000.  

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 416,142 in the week ending July 7, an increase of 116,151 from the previous week. There were 418,363 initial claims in the comparable week in 2006.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 1.8 percent during the week ending June 30, unchanged from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 2,306,379, a decrease of 44,377 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 1.7 percent and the volume was 2,211,698.

Extended benefits were not available in any state during the week ending June 23.

Initial claims for UI benefits by former Federal civilian employees totaled 1,467 in the week ending June 30, an increase of 189 from the prior week. There were 1,588 initial claims by newly discharged veterans, a decrease of 83 from the preceding week.

There were 12,242 former Federal civilian employees claiming UI benefits for the week ending June 23, an increase of 1,311 from the previous week. Newly discharged veterans claiming benefits totaled 21,233, an increase of 14 from the prior week.

The highest insured unemployment rates in the week ending June 23 were in Puerto Rico (3.4 percent), Alaska (2.9), Pennsylvania (2.9), Michigan (2.6), New Jersey (2.6), Rhode Island (2.6), Arkansas (2.5), Massachusetts (2.4), California (2.3), Oregon (2.3), and Wisconsin (2.3).

The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending June 30 were in New York (+3,974), Kentucky (+2,416), New Jersey (+2,127), Indiana (+1,993), and Michigan (+1,813), while the largest decreases were in Pennsylvania (-3,014), Florida (-2,350), Massachusetts (-1,806), Maryland (-1,613), and Wisconsin (-1,303).

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 06/30/2007 

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