In the week ending February 18, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 351,000, unchanged from the previous week's revised figure of 351,000. The 4-week moving average was 359,000, a decrease of 7,000 from the previous week's revised average of 366,000.Below is an interactive graph. You can interact with the graph by choosing what to display. The Initial/Continued category allows you to choose Initial Claims and/or Continued Claims. The Initial Claims are in units of one hundred thousand; the Continued Claims are in units of one million.
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