The numbers behind the time between jobs
The US labor market, every week.
Every week, we read the US labor market the moment the government releases the numbers — jobless claims, the unemployment rate, and where the jobs are — and translate it into plain English. Because behind every figure is someone navigating a real transition.
197K
+9K wk/wk
1.78M
insured unemployment
4.2%
-0.1 pt mo/mo
Why we track this
Every number is a person.
Behind every data point is someone who just lost a job and has to file an unemployment claim — a confusing, error-prone process that works differently in every state. That's why we built NextAct.work: it prepares the correct state unemployment-claim forms, filled in and ready to review and submit. It's our first product — the beginning of what NextActs is for.
See what we're building at NextAct.work →