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United States · Initial Claims

Initial Claims for the United States as published by U.S. Department of Labor and distributed through FRED.

198,000thousands of claims
Observation historyweekly · UTC
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Take this series with you.

fred-icsa

Download the available history to a local JSON file. Run it once and keep the data.

curl -fsS 'https://zernel.de/zernel.py' -o zernel.py
python3 zernel.py clone 'https://zernel.de/series/fred-icsa'

Python 3.9+ · No packages to install. Retraction markers remain in the file. Connection reference ↗

Use the REST API directly
GET https://zernel.de/v1/series/fred-icsa/data?limit=1000
GET https://zernel.de/v1/series/fred-icsa/changes?after=0&limit=1000

Paginate history with nextCursor → after. Poll changes using the commit cursor; persist it with your local data.

Source attestedAll time · 2000 pts
198,000thousands of claims-4.81%

FRED · ICSA · Origin unknown

5.92M4.49M3.05M1.62M185.14K19671981199620112026Jan 7, 1967 → Sep 19, 2026
High · loaded history6,137,000
Low · loaded history162,000
Chart observations2,000
Total observations3,117

Observation tape

Newest first · UTC
Observation timeValueRevisionEvidenceStatus
2026-09-19 00:00:00198,000r11canonical
2026-09-05 00:00:00207,000r11canonical
2026-08-29 00:00:00207,000r11canonical
2026-08-15 00:00:00207,000r11canonical
2026-08-08 00:00:00212,000r11canonical
2026-07-25 00:00:00198,000r11canonical
2026-07-18 00:00:00189,000r11canonical
2026-07-04 00:00:00217,000r11canonical
2026-06-20 00:00:00216,000r11canonical
2026-06-13 00:00:00227,000r11canonical
2026-05-30 00:00:00225,000r11canonical
2026-05-23 00:00:00212,000r11canonical