In the week ending March 27, 439,000 Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance coverage for the first time, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
That’s a decrease of 6,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 445,000. The 4-week moving average was 447,250, a decrease of 6,750 from the previous week.
The insured unemployment rate was 3.6 percent for the week ending March 20, unchanged from the prior week.
