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Jobless claims jump to 362,000

Jobless claims increased by 20,000 to 362,000 claims from 342,000 jobless claims for the prior week.

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Jobless claims rose to 362,000 claims from 342,000 claims for the prior week, according to the latest data.

聽showed a jump to both initial unemployment claims and continued jobless claims as initial claims trended below the closely watched 400K level.聽

Seasonally adjusted 鈥渋nitial鈥 unemployment claims increased by a whopping 20,000 to 362,000 claims from 342,000 claims for the prior week while seasonally adjusted 鈥渃ontinued鈥 claims increased by 11,000 claims to 3.148 million resulting in an 鈥渋nsured鈥 unemployment rate of 2.4%.聽

Since the middle of 2008 though, two federal government sponsored 鈥渆xtended鈥 unemployment benefit programs (the 鈥渆xtended benefits鈥 and 鈥淓UC 2008鈥 from recent legislation) have been picking up claimants that have fallen off of the traditional unemployment benefits rolls.聽

Currently there are some 1.84 million people receiving federal 鈥渆xtended鈥 unemployment benefits.聽

Taken together with the latest 3.66 million people that are currently counted as receiving traditional continued unemployment benefits, there are 5.51 million people on state and federal unemployment rolls.聽

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