Jobless claims fall to 340,000

Jobless claims declined by 7,000 to 340,000 claims from 347,000 jobless claims for the prior week.

By SoldAtTheTop,?Guest blogger / March 7, 2013

Jobless claims declined by 7,000 to 340,000 claims from 347,000 claims for the prior week.

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Today?s jobless claims report?showed a decline to initial unemployment claims and a slight increase to continued unemployment claims as initial claims trended below the closely watched 400K level.?

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Seasonally adjusted ?initial? unemployment claims declined by 7,000 to 340,000 claims from 347,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted ?continued? claims increased by 3,000 claims to 3.094 million resulting in an ?insured? unemployment rate of 2.4%.?

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored ?extended? unemployment benefit programs (the ?extended benefits? and ?EUC 2008? from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.?

Currently there are some 1.78 million people receiving federal ?extended? unemployment benefits.?

Taken together with the latest 3.53 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.31 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.?

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