Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending August 6, 2011

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2011.   

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending August 6, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 395,000, a decrease of 7,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 402,000. The 4-week moving average was 405,000, a decrease of 3,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 408,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.9 percent for the week ending July 30, a 0.1 percentage point decrease…