September 24, 2009
Initial Unemployment Claims Down 21K
By Matthew L. Brown
In the week ending Sept. 19, 530,000 Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance coverage, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
That's a decrease of 21,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 551,000.The four-week moving average was 553,500, a decrease of 11,000 from the previous week.
The insured unemployment rate was 4.6 percent for the week ending Sept. 12, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.
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