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Initial Claims for Unemployment <br />Initial Claims For Unemployment April 02, 2021-July 02, 2021 <br />6,000 <br />�InitialJobless Claims <br />(Continuing Claims <br />5,000 <br />3,708 3,652 3,653 3,680 3,640 3,738 3,611 3,769 ,3528 <br />3,517 3,412 3,484 <br />I 3,339 <br />4,000 I I I I I I I I I <br />3,000 <br />N <br />3 <br />O <br />t <br />2,000 <br />742 <br />1,000 586 566 590 <br />507 478 444 405 388 374 418 416 <br />OQ, OQ, OQ, OQ� OQ� Os, Os, Os, Os, 06, 06, 06, 06, 0)> <br />Obi 09 16. ��'i &0 Obi 1�i �1i ��i O�i 11i 1�i psi Obi <br />Source: US Department of Labor <br />In the most recent week, the number of initial jobless claims was 373,000 versus 371,000 in the prior week. The level of continuing <br />unemployment claims (where the data is lagged by one week) declined modestly to 3.339 million versus 3.484 million in the prior week. <br />Although continuing jobless claims have declined significantly from the peak of nearly 25 million last May, they remained above the 2019 (pre - <br />pandemic) average of 1.7 million. <br />5 c►" <br />14 <br />