In the week ending Nov. 21, 466,000 Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance benefits for the first time, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
That’s a decrease of 35,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 501,000.The 4-week moving average was 496,500, a decrease of 16,500 from the previous week.
The insured unemployment rate was 4.1 percent for the week ending Nov. 14, a decrease of 0.2 percentage point from the prior week.
