US jobless claims drop to pandemic low of 310,000 as federal unemployment benefits expire
Filings for unemployment insurance fell last week as the government's boost to UI payments expired nationwide.
Initial jobless claims totaled 310,000 last week, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected filings to decline to 335,000. The print marks a second straight decline and places claims at a new pandemic-era low.Continuing claims, which count Americans receiving unemployment benefits, declined to 2.78 million for the week that ended August 28. That landed above the forecast of 2.73 million claims and marked a sixth straight pandemic low.
The pullback in UI support comes as claims sit at historically elevated levels. Jobless claims are still well above their pre-pandemic trend of 200,000, and continuing claims need to drop by another million to return to their past average.
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