Unemployment Rates

		Aug-20	Jul-20	Aug-19
New Hampshire
	SA	6.5%	8.0%	2.6%
	NSA	6.4%	7.9%	2.5%

United States
	SA	8.4%	10.2%	3.7%
	NSA	8.5%	10.5%	3.8%

SA = Seasonally Adjusted
NSA = Not Seasonally Adjusted

Unemployment Claims

August 2020
Initial Claims	10,369
Continued Weeks Claimed	144,029
Average payment for a week of unemployment	$260.53

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Recent Updates

State of the Sector Analyses (09/25/20)
Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) (09/24/20)
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), 2020 Q1 and Firms by Size (09/23/20)
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), Annual 2019 and High Tech (09/23/20)
Job Ads Summary for July/August 2020 (09/22/20)
Unemployment Rates by State in Rank Order (09/18/20)
Unemployment News Release (09/15/20)
New Hampshire Current Employment Statistics (CES) (09/15/20)
Consumer Price Index (CPI) (09/11/20)
Registered Job Seekers by EEO category and Population Statistics tables for Affirmative Action (09/10/20)
Business Employment Dynamics (BED) (08/05/20)
New Hampshire Economic Conditions (07/30/20)
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization (07/24/20)
New Hampshire Long-term Projections by Industry and Occupation(06/10/20)
Licensed, Certified and Registered Occupations Publication(03/31/20)
New Hampshire Short-term Projections by Indusry and Occupation(02/27/20)
New Hampshire Unemployment Insurance Historical Data 1977-2018(01/06/20)

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