The Labor Department released its weekly unemployment claims on Thursday. It showed that another 3,169,000 workers filed for unemployment in the week ending on 5/2/20.
That brings the total of unemployment claims for the last seven weeks to 33,483,000. That's about 20.55% of the total civilian workforce of 162,913,000.
Here is the official statement from the Labor Department:
In the week ending May 2, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 3,169,000, a decrease of 677,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 7,000 from 3,839,000 to 3,846,000. The 4-week moving average was 4,173,500, a decrease of 861,500 from the previous week's revised average. The previous week's average was revised up by 1,750 from 5,033,250 to 5,035,000.
