How many individuals are claiming unemployment advantages in the USA?
Preliminary unemployment claims fell by 1,000 final week to 194,000. This brings the 4-week transferring common to 189,500.
The full variety of beneficiaries was 1,696,000, down from 2,063,573 recorded throughout the identical week in 2022. States with the best proportion of employees receiving UI advantages for the week ending on 28 January had been New Jersey (2.6), Rhode Island (2.5), California (2.3), Minnesota (2.3), Alaska (2.2), Massachusetts (2.2), Montana (2.1), Illinois (2.0), Puerto Rico (2.0), Connecticut (1.9), and New York (1.9).
