In the week ending Nov. 29, unemployment claims were 509,000, a decrease of 21,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 530,000.
The unemployment rate was 3.1% for the week ending Nov. 22, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week's unrevised rate of 3%.
The largest increases in initial claims for the week ending Nov. 22 were in California (+10,882), Ohio (+6,658), Michigan (+6,611), Indiana (+6,501), and Missouri (+5,820), while the largest decreases were in Nebraska (-72), Utah (-37), the Virgin Islands (-8), and North Dakota (-4).