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New and cumulative jobless claims by state: Unemployment insurance (UI) claims filed and numbers and shares of workers either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval during the week ending June 6

State Initial regular UI claims filed in most recent week Total currently receiving or applied for regular UI Regular UI as a share of labor force Total currently receiving or applied for PUA
Alabama 19,347 211,071 9.4% 57,855
Alaska 7,427 61,448 17.8% 19,391
Arizona 22,879 247,046 6.8% 894,313
Arkansas 9,151 128,906 9.4% 0
California 258,060 3,341,467 17.1% 1,300,660
Colorado 13,128 289,379 9.1% 128,813
Connecticut 15,279 300,197 15.6% 54,199
Delaware 2,921 62,098 12.7% 0
Washington D.C. 3,291 77,133 18.6% 0
Florida 110,520 1,254,775 12.0% 0
Georgia 134,711 977,160 19.0% 0
Hawaii 6,694 133,425 19.9% 120,250
Idaho 3,665 53,704 6.0% 2,365
Illinois 44,814 834,372 13.0% 109,502
Indiana 23,604 273,829 8.1% 256,794
Iowa 10,112 176,527 10.1% 21,156
Kansas 8,824 124,021 8.3% 48,615
Kentucky 40,536 280,346 13.5% 0
Louisiana 22,002 341,096 16.2% 201,381
Maine 3,031 90,444 13.0% 93,193
Maryland 41,104 310,969 9.5% 234,866
Massachusetts 44,732 639,945 16.7% 1,105,114
Michigan 28,504 910,062 18.4% 1,767,907
Minnesota 29,209 461,435 14.8% 73,040
Mississippi 21,021 196,782 15.4% 74,600
Missouri 18,587 269,277 8.7% 84,860
Montana 2,892 50,875 9.5% 70,751
Nebraska 4,729 68,801 6.6% 21,238
Nevada 13,200 350,953 22.5% 477,579
New Hampshire 6,055 114,212 14.7% 0
New Jersey 22,621 606,794 13.3% 546,712
New Mexico 5,913 119,986 12.5% 51,355
New York 94,348 1,881,352 19.7% 1,303,899
North Carolina 33,148 600,561 11.7% 186,650
North Dakota 2,527 39,418 9.7% 9,014
Ohio 35,474 581,932 10.0% 554,102
Oklahoma 50,397 260,857 14.1% 4,275
Oregon 23,445 501,756 23.8% 0
Pennsylvania 50,088 953,018 14.5% 1,272,259
Rhode Island 3,485 83,510 15.0% 49,364
South Carolina 22,734 251,486 10.5% 121,961
South Dakota 817 22,827 4.9% 5,313
Tennessee 21,417 347,419 10.3% 99,535
Texas 89,736 1,437,877 10.1% 337,388
Utah 5,452 88,494 5.4% 16,385
Vermont 1,560 47,844 14.1% 12,457
Virginia 30,164 457,579 10.3% 219,996
Washington 33,502 534,974 13.5% 220,742
West Virginia 4,216 99,883 12.4% 0
Wisconsin 25,731 306,455 9.9% 16,560
Wyoming 1,610 20,886 7.1% 3,833

Notes: Initial claims for the week ending June 6 reflect advance state claims, not seasonally adjusted. For comparisons to the size of the labor force, we use February 2020 levels. Totals reflect the number of workers whose have made it through at least the first round of processing or are waiting for their claim to be processed.

Unless otherwise noted, the numbers in this blog post are the ones reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, which they receive from the state agencies that administer UI. While the DOL is asking states to report regular UI claims and PUA claims separately, many states appear to also be including some or all PUA claimants in their reported regular UI claims. As state agencies work to get these new programs up and running, there will likely continue to be some misreporting. Since the number of UI claims is one of the most up-to-date measures we have of labor market weakness and access to benefits, we will still be analyzing it each week as reported by DOL, but ask that you keep these caveats in mind when interpreting the data.

Source: U.S. Employment and Training Administration, Initial Claims [ICSA], retrieved from Department of Labor (DOL), https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf and https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp, June 11, 2020.

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