Under the Edge of American Weekly Unemployed Claims

Washington (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment concessions fell last week, while the unemployment rate seemed to be steady in March.

The initial claims for state unemployment concessions have been reduced to 224,000 times a week ended on March 22, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Reuters voted economists have predicted 225,000 claims for the latest week.

The government has revised the claim data from 2020 to 2024, according to normal practice. New seasonal factors have been introduced to 2025 to eliminate seasonal fluctuations from data.

The seasonal factors from 2020 to 2024 were revised.

Low -redundments have a sharp moderate impact on the hiring, keeping the labor market in a solid state and keeping economic expansion on the path. But President Donald Trump’s Association Business Policy and a ambitious propaganda for the sharp reduction of the central government through deep spending cuts and mass investigations have put a barrier on the economy.

Although there is no significant choice of filing unemployment compensation by federal workers, the claims in the Washington DC Metropolitan region have risen to neighboring Maryland and parts of Virginia.

These often reflect the dismissal of contractors and other people who depend on government funding. Technical billionaire Elon Mask’s government performance department or Toj have been removed by thousands of federal workers, many of them have been ordered to restore the courts. Some have been placed on administrative leave, which does not allow for the filing of benefits.

The claim report shows that the number of people who receive benefits after the initial weekly assistance has declined to 1.856 million in the week ended on March 15, the number of benefits.

Continuous claim data were also revised from 2020 to 2024. Seasonal factors were revised for that period, and new ones were introduced for 2025.

Continuous claim data includes the week of studying families for the March unemployment rate.

In a convention board study on Tuesday, the consumer’s views on the labor market in March show mild improvement, and economists expect the unemployment rate to be 4.1% of this month.

(Report of Lucia Muthigani; Editing of Sisu Nomia)