Unemployment Rate in the United States increased to 4.40 percent in September from 4.30 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

In May 2025, 2.8 billion U.S. dollars were paid out in unemployment benefits in the United States. This is a decrease from April 2025, when 3.2 billion U.S. dollars were paid in unemployment benefits. The large figures seen in 2020 are largely due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Welfare in the U.S. Unemployment benefits first started in 1935 during the Great Depression as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The Social Security Act of 1935 ensured that Americans would not fall deeper into poverty. The United States was the only developed nation in the world at the time that did not offer any welfare benefits. This program created unemployment benefits, Medicare and Medicaid, and maternal and child welfare. The only major welfare program that the United States currently lacks is a paid maternity leave policy. Currently, the United States only offers 12 unpaid weeks of leave, under certain circumstances. However, the number of people without health insurance in the United States has greatly decreased since 2010. Unemployment benefits Current unemployment benefits in the United States vary from state to state due to unemployment being funded by both the state and the federal government. The average duration of people collecting unemployment benefits in the United States has fluctuated since January 2020, from as little as 4.55 weeks to as many as 50.32 weeks. The unemployment rate varies by ethnicity, gender, and education levels. For example, those aged 16 to 24 have faced the highest unemployment rates since 1990 during the pandemic. In February 2023, the Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV metropolitan area had the highest unemployment rate in the United States.

Initial Jobless Claims in the United States decreased to 216 thousand in the week ending November 22 of 2025 from 222 thousand in the previous week. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - United States Initial Jobless Claims - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, according to the legal provisions. The number of registered unemployed represents both the unemployed compensated (unemployed persons with experience in work and unemployed unemployed inexperienced unemployment benefits/education graduates) and the unemployed unemployed (without unemployment benefit) and are based on the data from the primary documents and the records from the database of the Territorial Employment Agencies. Represents the stock at the end of the reference month. The unemployment rate recorded is determined as the ratio between the number of unemployed registered with the county employment agencies and the municipality of Bucharest (allowed and unpaid) at the end of the reference month and the civil active population. The civilian active population represents the potential labour supply and employment rate of the population comprising the civilian-occupied population and the registered unemployed. The indicator is determined annually by the National Institute of Statistics through the labour force balance at the level of the country, development region and county. The total number of registered unemployed is structured on: sexes (women, men); type of compensation (allowed, non-allowed); education level (without studies, primary education, secondary education, secondary education, post-iceal education, vocational education/arts and crafts, university education); age groups (under 25 years, 25-29 years, 30-39 years, 40-49 years, 50-55 years, over 55 years). residential environments (urban, rural). ANOFM calculates and publishes statistical indicators on registered unemployment, according to the legal provisions.

As of October 2024, there were 133.89 million full-time employees in the United States. This is a slight decrease from the previous month, when there were 134.15 million full-time employees. The impact COVID-19 on employment In December 2019, the COVID-19 virus began its spread across the globe. Since being classified as a pandemic, the virus caused a global health crisis that has taken the lives of millions of people worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic changed many facets of society, most significantly, the economy. In the first years, many businesses across all industries were forced to shut down, with large numbers of employees being laid off. The economy continued its recovery in 2022 with the nationwide unemployment rate returning to a more normal 3.4 percent as of April 2023. Unemployment benefits Because so many people in the United States lost their jobs, record numbers of individuals applied for unemployment insurance for the first time. As an early response to this nation-wide upheaval, the government issued relief checks and extended the benefits paid by unemployment insurance. In May 2020, the amount of unemployment insurance benefits paid rose to 23.73 billion U.S. dollars. As of December 2022, this value had declined to 2.24 billion U.S. dollars.

The data provided is the number of FED-ED (Federal Funding for Extended Unemployment) and EUC (Emergency Unemployment Compensation) Tier IV Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims that have exhausted. Based on the current legislation, claimants can have either an EUC Tier IV or FED-ED claim as their last available benefit option. The data is representative of those claims that were processed during the month and does not necessarily represent the month the final payment was made in. For example, if a claimant is entitled to benefits for the week-ending October 31, 2009, the claim might not get processed until early November and that count would display in the November data. There are a small percentage of claimants that could go back onto a training extension even after exhausting their FED-ED claim.

∙ The data by county represents the mailing address given by the claimant at the time of filing for UI. It is possible that an individual can reside in a different county than their mailing address. Also, this information does not represent the county where the individual worked. It is also possible that a claimant could have moved or changed their mailing address after filing for UI, which would not be reflected here.
∙ Data for claimants residing outside of California but collecting benefits are not included in these figures nor are invalid addresses in California where a county cannot be determined.
∙ California began paying FED-ED benefits in May 2009, with payments retroactive to February 2009 and began paying EUC Tier IV benefits in February 2010, with payments retroactive to December 2009. Currently, FED-ED or EUC Tier IV are the last extended benefit programs available to claimants.
∙ Claimants who had a FED-ED extension filed with an effective date of November 22, 2009, or before, will continue to be paid FED-ED extended benefits until they exhaust those FED-ED extensions, before filing for the additional EUC Tiers (which includes EUC Tier IV). Due to the complexity of the extended benefits legislation, a claimant could have exhausted an EUC Tier IV claim and still be eligible for FED-ED benefits, or vice versa. Therefore, to capture any claimants that have exhausted all available benefits a query is run to look for those claimants who have exhausted EUC Tier IV and FED-ED.
∙ Data for May 2010 through December 2010 have been revised on March 2011.
∙ Data for August 2013 through October 2013 have been revised on December 23, 2013.

Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in West Virginia was 0.00000 Number in October of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in West Virginia reached a record high of 69560.00000 in October of 2020 and a record low of 0.00000 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in West Virginia - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

The Labour Force Survey provides estimates of employment and unemployment which are among the timeliest and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. The Canadian Labour Force Survey was developed following the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market. Information was urgently required on the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to a peace-time economy. The main objective of the LFS is to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive classifications - employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force - and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these. LFS data are used to produce the well-known unemployment rate as well as other standard labour market indicators such as the employment rate and the participation rate. The LFS also provides employment estimates by industry, occupation, public and private sector, hours worked and much more, all cross-classifiable by a variety of demographic characteristics. Estimates are produced for Canada, the provinces, the territories and a large number of sub-provincial regions. For employees, wage rates, union status, job permanency and workplace size are also produced. These data are used by different levels of government for evaluation and planning of employment programs in Canada. Regional unemployment rates are used by Employment and Social Development Canada to determine eligibility, level and duration of insurance benefits for persons living within a particular employment insurance region. The data are also used by labour market analysts, economists, consultants, planners, forecasters and academics in both the private and public sector.This public use microdata file contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). It contains both personal characteristics for all individuals in the household and detailed labour force characteristics for household members 15 years of age and over. The personal characteristics include age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and family characteristics. Detailed labour force characteristics include employment information such as class of worker, usual and actual hours of work, employee hourly and weekly wages, industry and occupation of current or most recent job, public and private sector, union status, paid or unpaid overtime hours, job permanency, hours of work lost, job tenure, and unemployment information such as duration of unemployment, methods of job search and type of job sought. Labour force characteristics are also available for students during the school year and during the summer months as well as school attendance whether full or part-time and the type of institution.LFS revisions: Labour force surveys are revised on a periodic basis, either to adopt the most recent geography, industry and occupation classifications; to use new observations to fine-tune seasonal adjustment factors; or to introduce methodological enhancement. Prior LFS revisions were conducted in 2011, 2015 and 2021. The most recent revisions to the LFS were conducted in 2023. The first major change was a transition to the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 V1.0, with all LFS series from 1987 onwards having been revised to the new classification. The second major change were methodological enhancements to LFS data processing, applied to all LFS series beginning Jan 2006. The third major change was a revision of seasonal adjustment factors, applied to LFS series Jan 2002 onward. A list of prior versions of this LFS dataset can be found under the ‘Versions’ tab.

This data collection is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that evaluate the Bush presidency and solicit opinions on a variety of political and social issues. Topics covered include the economy, foreign affairs, the most important problem facing this country, who was most responsible for doing something about this problem, and which political party better represented the interests of poor people, rich people, and the middle class. In addition, respondents were questioned on whether they thought people in government wasted a lot of money and whether most of them were dishonest. Respondents were also asked if they had a favorable impression of certain people who might run in the presidential election, whom they would vote for if the House of Representatives election were held that day, and toward which candidate they were leaning. Other subjects addressed included whether respondents supported a federal law requiring businesses with more than 50 employees to allow workers 12 weeks of unpaid leave and a federal law giving unemployed people as much as 20 weeks of extra unemployment benefits, whether the United States should cut military spending because of the changes in the Soviet Union, and whether the Senate should have confirmed Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court. Background information on respondents includes political alignment, 1988 presidential vote choice, education, age, religion, social class, marital status, number of people in household, labor union membership, employment status, race, income, sex, and state/region of residence.

The Joint Unemployment and Vacancies Operating System Cohort (JUVOS) is a 5% sample of all computerised claims for unemployment-related benefits selected by reference to a claimant's National Insurance (NI) number. Each time a person with a relevant NI number makes a claim for unemployment-related benefits their details are added to the cohort file.

The purpose of the study is to provide a means of examining long-term dynamics of the labour market. It enables analysis of claimant unemployment, the number of unemployment spells experienced by individuals, and the length of time between spells of unemployment. It provides information on the number of previous claims that a claimant has made within a specified period, and also on the gap between the start of their more recent (or in some cases current) claim, and the end of their previous claim (if one existed).

The JUVOS database is used to inform policy decisions on employment and training, welfare and social security. It assists in monitoring the impact of government schemes, and is used by various government departments, including the Department for Education and Skills, the Department for Work and Pensions, local authorities, consultants and researchers.

The date coverage of the 13th edition is October 1982 - January 2006. Please see READ file for full details.

This table shows the number of benefits under the Unemployment Act per month by sex, age and region. This table concerns monthly figures that are not seasonally adjusted.

Figures available from 1998 January to 2015 December.

Status of the figures: The figures of 1998 January to 2015 October are final. The figures of 2015 November and 2015 December are provisional. Because this table is discontinued, figures will not be updated anymore.

Changes as of August 31, 2016: None, this table is discontinued.

When will new figures be published? Not applicable anymore.

This dataset contains statewide Extended Benefits (EB) claims and payment activities for Iowa. This data is based on the ETA-5159 (EB) report that IWD submits to the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Extended Benefits triggered "off" in Iowa effective October 31, 2020.

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.

This table contains information on the labour market situation of all young people aged 15 to 27 in the Netherlands who were registered in the Basic Register of Persons (BRP) on 1 October of the reference year. This indicates whether young people are working, whether they go to school, whether they receive benefits and whether they are registered as a jobseeker with the UWV Werkbedrijf. For young people employed, a distinction is made between employees and the self-employed. The data can be broken down by various regional divisions (country, province, COROP, Labour market region and municipality).

The total number of young people (15 to 27 years old) with benefits in this table is higher than in other StatLine tables on social security. This is because the number of benefits is counted over the whole month instead of presenting the situation on the last Friday of the month. This table also covers all social security benefits related to incapacity for work, sickness, unemployment or assistance.

The reporting period is October of the reference year. Whether someone goes to school is determined on the basis of an enrolment in the education funded by the government on 1 October of the reference year.

The municipalities were classified according to the situation on 1 January 2022.

Data available from 2005. Data on whether or not to be registered as a jobseeker at the UWV Werkbedrijf will be available from 2018. In the predecessors of this table, data from the UWV Werkbedrijf (formerly CWI) was used for this purpose. Because this source did not continue in 2019, a switch was made to Registered Job Seekers UWV (GWU). However, these data are not available for the years 2005-2017. The figures refer to the situation in October of the year in question. Compared to the predecessor of this table (see paragraph 3), the method of calculation of benefits and employment characteristics has improved. As a result, these figures may differ slightly from previous versions.

Data available from 2005 to 2022.

Status of the figures: The figures for the years 2005 to 2020 in this table are final. The figures for 2021 are provisional.

Changes as of 16 February 2024: None, this table has been discontinued.

When will there be new figures? No longer applicable. This table is followed up by the table Youth labour market situation (15-27 years); region (classification 2023). See paragraph 3.

This poll, fielded October 2011, and the second of three, is part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Opinions were sought about how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, foreign policy, the economy, the situation in Iraq, and job creation. Further questions were asked about the state of the national economy, various tax cuts and regulations, job creation, the Affordable Care Act, and the most important problem facing the nation. Respondents were asked whether the country was headed in the right direction, whether Congress was performing their job well, how Republicans and Democrats were handling job creation, whether Obama or the Republicans favored a certain social class, whether respondents trusted the government, and whether respondents supported the Tea Party movement and/or Occupy Wall Street movement. Respondents were also queried about how much attention they were paying to the 2012 campaign, whether they planned to vote in a 2012 primary or caucus, and for their opinions of various Republican candidates, such as Mitt Romney. Additional topics included unemployment and unemployment benefits, job searches, and problems resulting from being unemployed. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, personal finances, perceived social class, employment status, religious preference, whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, voter registration status, voting behavior, military service, number of phones, and household composition.

State Unemployment Benefits in Georgia was 444830.00000 Mil. of $ in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, State Unemployment Benefits in Georgia reached a record high of 32470072.00000 in April of 2020 and a record low of 4796.00000 in January of 1948. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for State Unemployment Benefits in Georgia - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on November of 2025.

The table provides an overview of the number of persons in a benefit situation at the reference date under the Unemployment Act (WW), broken down by the duration of that situation and some personal characteristics of the benefit recipient.

Data available from September 2005 to September 2007.

Status of the figures The figures in this table are final.

Amendments as of 22 October 2013 The table has been discontinued.

When will there be new figures? No longer applicable

Unemployment rate gap changes (β) by Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), overall and by svi theme, among rapid riser counties† (N = 585) before and after¶ a rapid rise in COVID-19 incidence --- United States.

This table provides information on the labour market situation of all young people aged 15 to 27 in the Netherlands who were registered in the Basic Persons Registration (BRP) on 1 October of the reference year. This indicates whether young people work, whether they go to school, whether they receive a benefit and whether they are registered as a jobseeker at the UWV Werkbedrijf. For young people in employment, a distinction is made between workers and the self-employed. The total number of young people (15 to 27 years old) with a benefit within this table is higher than in other StatLine tables on social security. This is because the number of benefits is counted throughout the month instead of the situation being presented on the last Friday of the month. This table also covers all social security benefits related to incapacity for work, sickness, unemployment or assistance.

The total number of young people aged 15 to 27 in this table differs slightly from the total number of young people aged 15 to 27 in the labour market situation table for young people (15 to 27 years old). region (classification 2019) (see paragraph 3). This is because the age of a person in this table is determined in a different way.

The reporting period shall be the month of October of the reference year. Whether a person goes to school is determined on the basis of an enrolment in the education funded by the government on 1 October of the reference year.

Data available from 2005 to 2018. The figures refer to the situation in the month of October of the year in question.

Status of the figures: The figures for the years 2005 to 2017 in this table are final. The figures for 2018 are provisional.

Changes as of 4 March 2021: None, this table has been discontinued.

Changes as of 27 June 2019: 2017 figures have been added. With the addition of 2017 figures, the categorical classification of the personal attribute age has also changed to a more common classification. The old categorical classification of age ranged from 0 to 18 years, under 23 years, 0 to 25 years, 18 to 23 years, 23 to 25 years, 23 to 27 years and 25 to 27 years. The new categorical classification of age covers 15 to 20 years, 20 to 25 years, 15 to 25 years, 15 to 27 years and 25 to 27 years. For the reporting years 2012 to 2016, figures based on the old categorical age classification shall remain available on request. In addition, the addition of 2017 figures exempted wages and pensions of international organisations for the reporting years 2011 to 2017. Persons who are part of international organisations or receive pensions from these organisations were not previously considered to be working. This is the case in the current version. This leads to minor differences compared to the previous version of this table.

When are new figures coming? No longer applicable. This table is followed by the labour market situation table for young people (15 to 27 years old); personal characteristics. See paragraph 3.

Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in Wyoming was 0.00000 Number in October of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in Wyoming reached a record high of 5661.00000 in March of 2021 and a record low of 0.00000 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continued Claims in Wyoming - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

The table shows the number of people receiving social security benefits. These persons can live both in the Netherlands and abroad. These are persons receiving benefits for incapacity for work, unemployment, old age, social assistance and social assistance-related benefits. Persons receiving disability, unemployment, social assistance and assistance-related benefits will be available from 2007. The number of people receiving an old-age benefit has been included in the table since 2013. It is possible for a person to claim multiple benefits. These may be benefits of the same type (e.g. two disability benefits: WIA, WAZ, Wajong or WAO) or benefits of different types (such as benefits under the Unemployment Act (WW) and social assistance benefits). In the latter case, the person is included in both types of benefits. In the first case, only once (in the case of invalidity benefits). As of October 2021, there has been an increase in the number of WGA benefits. The reason for this is a quality improvement of the process so that a group of self-risk carriers that were previously missing are now included. This is not an increase in the regular number of WGA benefits, but an increase in "persons with a WGA benefit". In the total counts, the person is of course only counted once.

The compilation of data for StatLine tables that contain breakdowns by personal characteristics is always based on the most recent data from the Basic Registration of Persons (BRP). Because different StatLine tables are updated at different times, it may happen that a different version of the BRP is used for one table than for another table. This may result in limited differences compared to other tables with the same population. In this case, the most recent published figures are the most accurate. The figures refer to the last day of the reporting month.

Status of figures: The figures can be both provisional and definitive. The monthly figures are end-of-year figures. After one to two years, the figures become final.

Changes as of 29 March 2024: Added are: Further preliminary figures from July to September 2023.

When will there be new figures? New figures will come in July 2024.