United States Department of Labor. Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Insurance (Report r539cy): Continued Unemployment Claims | Seasonally Adjusted: Seasonally Adjusted, 01/28/2001 - 01/31/2015. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 060-001-002
Dataset: Those filing for benefits after the initial-claim filing are included in the continuing claims data. Obtaining unemployment insurance benefits is a week-to-week process.
The Unemployment Insurance weekly claims data are used in current economic analysis of unemployment trends in the Nation, and in each State. Initial claims measure emerging unemployment and continued weeks claimed measure the number of persons claiming unemployment benefits.
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Category: Labor and Employment
Subject: Unemployment Insurance, Unemployed Workers, Unemployment Rates
Source: United States Department of Labor
The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights. The DOL administers and enforces more than 180 federal laws. These mandates and the regulations that implement them cover many workplace activities for about 10 million employers and 125 million workers.
The organic act establishing the Department of Labor was signed on March 4, 1913, by a reluctant President William Howard Taft, the defeated and departing incumbent, just hours before Woodrow Wilson took office. A Federal Department of Labor was the direct product of a half-century campaign by organized labor for a "Voice in the Cabinet," and an indirect product of the Progressive Movement. In the words of the organic act, the Department's purpose is "to foster, promote and develop the welfare of working people, to improve their working conditions, and to enhance their opportunities for profitable employment."
Initially the Department consisted of the new US Conciliation Service (USCS), which mediated labor disputes, plus four pre-existing bureaus: the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the Bureau of Immigration, the Bureau of Naturalization and the Children's Bureau. Woodrow Wilson's appointee as Secretary of Labor was Scottish-born Congressman William B. Wilson (1913-1921), a founder and former Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of Amer...