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Is this a spike compared to last few months? Where is best place to get the latest chart of unemployment over time for 2020?

• charwalker 6y ago
  BLS: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf They release a jobs report on the first friday of each month with asjustements as data from prior months made it in. They survey businesses and process a lot of other data to deliver these reports and have been generally apolitical and data focused though the current administration has tried to influence numbers to their advantage, effectively undermining a critical component of our democracy.
• jcranmer 6y ago
  You can get exact numbers in table form here: https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/wkclaims/report.asp https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/wkclaims/report.asp The latest jobs report, which has a graph of the year's data, is here: https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The numbers here are basically on an exponential decay curve from ~6M new claims in the last week of March. (FWIW, the pre-2020 record for new weekly claims, seasonally adjusted, was ~700k in 1982--we broke that in March and haven't stopped breaking it since).
  • j7ake 6y ago
    Really great thanks.