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Jobless claims fall to 196,000, lowest since mid-July... layoffs remain low

Jobless claims fall to 196,000, lowest since mid-July... layoffs remain low

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September 17th, 2026

Jobless claims fall to 196,000, lowest since mid-July... layoffs remain low

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The sharp drop in unemployment benefit claims last week was interpreted as yet another indicator that layoffs remain rare and that the majority of Americans are enjoying job security.

์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ์‹ค์—…์ˆ˜๋‹น ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰๊ฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ•ด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋“œ๋ฌผ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ณ ์šฉ ์•ˆ์ •์„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The Labor Department announced on Thursday that initial claims for unemployment benefits fell to 196,000, marking the lowest level since mid-July and down from 206,000 the previous week.

๋…ธ๋™๋ถ€๋Š” ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ์‹ค์—…์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 19๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ 7์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ €์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „์ฃผ 20๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฑด์—์„œ ์ค„์–ด๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐœํ‘œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility, dropped to 203,250.

์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ๋ณ€๋™์„ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” 4์ฃผ ์ด๋™ํ‰๊ท  ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๋Š” 20๋งŒ 3,250๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฝํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to a survey conducted by a data company called FactSet, economists predicted that claims would reach 207,500.

ํŒฉํŠธ์…‹(FactSet)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ์„ค๋ฌธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 20๋งŒ 7,500๊ฑด์— ๋‹ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Jobless claims serve as a proxy indicator of layoffs, and economists keep a close watch on them because they can signal the direction in which the labor market is heading.

์‹ค์—…์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ณ ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ์„œ, ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋…ธ๋™ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ–ฅ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ฃผ์‹œํ•œ๋‹ค.

Over the past year, the number of claims has for the most part remained within the historically low range of 200,000 to 230,000 per week.

์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ฃผ๋‹น 20๋งŒ~23๋งŒ ๊ฑด์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ €๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €๋‹ค.

Despite the high oil prices that have been weighing on both businesses and consumers since the conflict with Iran broke out on February 28, the U.S. labor market is still holding up well.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…ธ๋™ ์‹œ์žฅ์€ 2์›” 28์ผ ์ด๋ž€๊ณผ์˜ ๋ถ„์Ÿ์ด ๋ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ์ด๋ž˜๋กœ ๊ธฐ์—…๊ณผ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ์••๋ฐ•ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ณ ์œ ๊ฐ€์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Layoffs remain at a low level.

ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ์ €์กฐํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋‹ค.

Companies that recall the labor shortage that followed the end of pandemic lockdowns tend to be reluctant to let employees go.

ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๋ด‰์‡„๊ฐ€ ์ข…๋ฃŒ๋œ ์ดํ›„ ๋’ค๋”ฐ๋ž๋˜ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์ง์›์„ ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค.

They are hiring, to be sure, but by the standards of recent years the scale of that hiring remains modest.

์ด๋“ค์€ ์ฑ„์šฉ์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ธฐ์ค€์— ๋น„์ถ”์–ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๊ทธ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋Š” ์†Œํญ์— ๊ทธ์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

So far this year, employers โ€” including businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations โ€” have added an average of 80,000 jobs per month, and in August, surprisingly, the figure rose by 162,000.

์˜ฌํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด ๊ธฐ์—…, ์ •๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ๊ด€, ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ๋‹จ์ฒด ๋“ฑ ๊ณ ์šฉ์ฃผ๋“ค์€ ์›”ํ‰๊ท  8๋งŒ ๊ฐœ์˜ ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 8์›”์—๋Š” ๋†€๋ž๊ฒŒ๋„ 16๋งŒ 2์ฒœ ๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

This marks an improvement compared with the grim figure of 9,700 jobs created per month on average in 2025, when high interest rates and President Donald Trump's constantly shifting trade policies dampened hiring.

์ด๋Š” ๋†’์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—ญ ์ •์ฑ…์ด ์ฑ„์šฉ์„ ์œ„์ถ•์‹œํ‚จ 2025๋…„์˜ ์›”ํ‰๊ท  ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฐฝ์ถœ 9,700๊ฐœ๋ผ๋Š” ์•”์šธํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

However, this figure falls markedly short of the monthly average of 166,000 jobs created in 2023 and 2024, as well as the 491,000 recorded per month during the hiring boom of 2021โ€“2022 that followed the COVID-19 lockdowns.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด๋Š” 2023๋…„๊ณผ 2024๋…„์— ํ‰๊ท ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋œ ์›” 16๋งŒ 6์ฒœ ๊ฐœ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ๋ด‰์‡„ ์ดํ›„ ์ด์–ด์ง„ 2021~2022๋…„ ์ฑ„์šฉ ๋ถ ๋‹น์‹œ ๊ธฐ๋ก๋œ ์›” 49๋งŒ 1์ฒœ ๊ฐœ์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋ฏธ๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์น˜๋‹ค.

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