Chart: New and cumulative jobless claims by state: Number of workers either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval during the week ending October 10

Table 1

New and cumulative jobless claims by state: Number of workers either receiving unemployment benefits or waiting for approval during the week ending October 10

	Regular UI		Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA)		Other programs
State	Most recent continued claims: 10/03/2020	Most recent week initial claims: 10/10/2020	Most recent continued claims: 09/26/2020	Total initial claims – most recent 2 weeks	Most recent continued claims: 09/26/2020	Total receiving UI or waiting for approval*
Alabama	22,596	6,474	43,057	1,854	71,959	145,940
Alaska	19,885	6,166	10,297	551	9,520	46,419
Arizona	147,979	10,004	425,024	74,519	30,360	687,886
Arkansas	27,383	5,065	63,960	7,176	24,717	128,301
California	2,802,145	226,179	3,493,940	199,648	829,071	7,550,983
Colorado	125,369	6,216	64,741	4,841	47,299	248,466
Connecticut	119,622	4,740	50,939	1,334	46,027	222,662
Delaware	22,889	1,907	7,898	242	6,881	39,817
District of Columbia	47,575	1,804	14,778	391	10,496	75,044
Florida	250,710	44,795	–	58,657	5,794	359,956
Georgia	410,739	53,400	288,665	8,997	1,113	762,914
Hawaii	93,251	5,128	114,537	6,955	562	220,433
Idaho	7,466	3,288	11,118	69	6,432	28,373
Illinois	428,991	46,072	120,585	14,663	97,266	707,577
Indiana	115,108	28,864	175,287	24,066	25,496	368,821
Iowa	46,577	4,644	12,733	1,608	31,316	96,878
Kansas	52,033	15,083	175,511	17,453	19,172	279,252
Kentucky	79,459	5,769	49,879	6,516	448	142,071
Louisiana	155,586	12,630	134,049	15,218	9,315	326,798
Maine	18,732	1,444	15,903	1,583	15,544	53,206
Maryland	103,990	11,634	182,908	9,512	20,962	329,006
Massachusetts	261,763	39,063	468,488	22,469	124,049	915,832
Michigan	270,553	12,906	637,737	29,319	135,442	1,085,957
Minnesota	140,236	9,408	43,872	3	63,771	257,290
Mississippi	51,805	3,197	28,872	3,574	16,128	103,576
Missouri	57,544	9,542	59,342	1,310	57,169	184,907
Montana	16,982	2,721	36,264	2,638	5,361	63,966
Nebraska	15,272	3,134	34,705	3,667	4,751	61,529
Nevada	147,266	10,886	94,559	17,936	55,665	326,312
New Hampshire	29,901	2,136	15,469	655	4,328	52,489
New Jersey	247,071	28,055	386,957	23,648	136,584	822,315
New Mexico	62,826	6,394	38,854	2,215	17,212	127,501
New York	724,499	68,670	1,225,825	59,348	492,297	2,570,639
North Carolina	101,302	19,080	166,596	17,180	230,024	534,182
North Dakota	10,727	1,139	5,849	1,755	5,399	24,869
Ohio	198,797	19,211	419,625	50,180	74,587	762,400
Oklahoma	70,832	4,840	15,087	1,660	17,714	110,133
Oregon	125,601	4,152	114,360	8,954	38,809	291,876
Pennsylvania	401,195	19,515	772,797	42,491	128,422	1,364,420
Rhode Island	22,234	2,944	46,452	12,355	18,906	102,891
South Carolina	66,104	4,884	58,429	7,362	72,973	209,752
South Dakota	5,389	382	2,792	84	513	9,160
Tennessee	95,188	10,145	156,388	8,282	60,110	330,113
Texas	721,223	43,435	286,831	12,227	48,190	1,111,906
Utah	21,235	2,744	5,194	1,448	9,927	40,548
Vermont	16,011	505	8,955	81	5,757	31,309
Virginia	180,478	12,005	207,497	6,054	86,979	493,013
Washington	239,346	24,611	107,991	7,388	69,149	448,485
West Virginia	33,452	1,971	37,109	7,520	9,236	89,288
Wisconsin	109,792	14,830	42,788	5,231	43,508	216,149
Wyoming	6,763	843	2,250	269	2,352	12,477

*Caution: This is a substantial overestimate. For one thing, initial claims for regular state UI and PUA should be nonoverlapping—that is how DOL has directed agencies to report them—but some individuals are erroneously being counted as being in both programs. Also, some states are including retroactive payments in their continuing PUA claims, which would also lead to double counting. Regular state UI continued claims are for the week ending October 3; PEUC continued claims are for the week ending September 26; regular state UI initial claims are for the week ending October 10. PUA continued claims are for the week ending September 26; PUA initial claims are for the weeks ending October 3 and October 10. “Other programs” are continued claims in other programs for the week ending September 26. A full list of programs can be found in the bottom panel of the table on page 4 at this link: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf.

Source: U.S. Employment and Training Administration, Initial Claims [ICSA], retrieved from the Department of Labor (DOL), https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf and https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims.asp, October 15, 2020.

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