Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending August 13, 2011

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2011.  

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending August 13, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 408,000, an increase of 9,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 399,000. The 4-week moving average was 402,500, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 406,000.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.9 percent for the week ending August 6, unchanged from the prior week’s…