In the week ending April 17, 456,000 Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance coverage for the first time, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
That’s a decrease of 24,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 480,000. The 4-week moving average was 460,250, an increase of 2,750 from the previous week.
The insured unemployment rate was 3.6 percent for the week ending April 10, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.
