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United States · Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims

Weekly initial unemployment insurance claims, provider counts, as published by the U.S. Employment and Training Administration and distributed through FRED.

199,000claims
Observation historyweekly observations · UTC
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Take this series with you.

fred-icsa-claims

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-claims'

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-claims/data?limit=1000
GET https://zernel.de/v1/series/fred-icsa-claims/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
199,000claims-4.33%

FRED · ICSA · Deterministic source

6.11M4.63M3.15M1.67M185.9K19671981199620112026Jan 7, 1967 → Sep 26, 2026
High · loaded history6,137,000
Low · loaded history162,000
Chart observations2,000
Total observations3,118

Observation tape

Newest first · UTC
Observation timeValueRevisionEvidenceStatus
2026-09-26 00:00:00199,000r11canonical
2026-09-12 00:00:00198,000r11canonical
2026-09-05 00:00:00207,000r11canonical
2026-08-22 00:00:00204,000r11canonical
2026-08-15 00:00:00207,000r11canonical
2026-08-01 00:00:00200,000r11canonical
2026-07-25 00:00:00198,000r11canonical
2026-07-11 00:00:00209,000r11canonical
2026-06-27 00:00:00217,000r11canonical
2026-06-20 00:00:00216,000r11canonical
2026-06-06 00:00:00230,000r11canonical
2026-05-30 00:00:00225,000r11canonical