BATON ROUGE - The initial unemployment insurance claims for the week ending July 25, 2020 dropped to 18,511 from the week ending July 18, 2020 total of 32,079. For a comparison, during the week ending July 27, 2019, 2,022 initial claims were filed.
The four-week moving average of initial claims decreased to 27,090 from the previous week's average of 27,956.
The unemployment insurance continued claims for the week ending July 25, 2020 increased to 324,357 from the week ending July 18, 2020 total of 313,117. The continued claims were above the comparable figure of 17,740 for the week ending July 27, 2019.
The four-week moving average of continued claims increased to 315,881 from the previous week's average of 311,314.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) has countless tools both in person and online to help claimants file and process their claims. This is in addition to the resources found at the agency's 62 local offices statewide, opportunities discovered at job fairs, training programs, apprenticeship opportunities and numerous other LWC services.
To view unemployment insurance claims data for prior weeks, visit www.laworks.net and select Labor Market
Information, scroll down the LMI page and select Unemployment Insurance (UI) Claims Data.
Please click here to view the UI Weekly Claims Tableau Dashboard
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