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Jobless Claims Fall to 196,000, Lowest Since Mid-July...Layoffs Remain Subdued

Jobless Claims Fall to 196,000, Lowest Since Mid-July...Layoffs Remain Subdued

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September 17th, 2026

Jobless Claims Fall to 196,000, Lowest Since Mid-July...Layoffs Remain Subdued

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The sharp decline in unemployment benefit claims last week is interpreted as yet another indicator that layoffs remain anomalous and that the majority of Americans are enjoying employment stability.

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

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

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

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

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

According to a survey conducted by FactSet, economists had forecast that claims would reach 207,500.

ํŒฉํŠธ์…‹(FactSet)์ด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์„ค๋ฌธ ์กฐ์‚ฌ์— ์˜๊ฑฐํ•  ๋•Œ, ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ 20๋งŒ 7,500๊ฑด์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Jobless claims serve as a proxy indicator of layoffs, and economists regard them as a signal that gauges the trajectory of the labor market, monitoring them closely.

์‹ค์—…์ˆ˜๋‹น ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋Š” ํ•ด๊ณ ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ์„œ, ๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™์ž๋“ค์€ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋…ธ๋™ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ํ–ฅ๋ฐฉ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Š ์ผ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผํ•˜์—ฌ ์˜ˆ์˜ ์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…„๊ฐ„ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ๊ฑด์ˆ˜๋Š” ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ฃผ๋‹น 20๋งŒ~23๋งŒ ๊ฑด์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์ €๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋ €๋‹ค.

The U.S. labor market continues to hold firm despite the elevated oil prices that have weighed on both businesses and consumers since the conflict with Iran broke out on February 28.

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

Layoffs have remained at subdued levels.

ํ•ด๊ณ ๋Š” ์ €์กฐํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

Firms that recall the labor shortages that ensued after pandemic lockdowns ended are reluctant to shed workers.

ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ๋ด‰์‡„ ์ข…๋ฃŒ ์ดํ›„ ๋’ค๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋…ธ๋™๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์€ ์ง์›์„ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

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

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

So far this year, employersโ€”businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations alikeโ€”have added an average of 80,000 jobs a month, and in August, remarkably, the figure rose by 162,000.

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

This represents an improvement compared with the grim performance of 2025, when high interest rates and President Donald Trump's perpetually drifting trade policy dampened hiring, yielding an average of just 9,700 jobs created per month.

์ด๋Š” ๋†’์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ํ‘œ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์—ญ ์ •์ฑ…์ด ์ฑ„์šฉ์„ ์œ„์ถ•์‹œ์ผฐ๋˜ 2025๋…„์˜ ์›”ํ‰๊ท  ์ผ์ž๋ฆฌ ์ฐฝ์ถœ 9,700๊ฐœ๋ผ๋Š” ์•”์šธํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋น„์ถ”์–ด ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์–‘์ƒ์ด๋‹ค.

However, this figure falls markedly short when set against the monthly average of 166,000 jobs created across 2023 and 2024, and still more so against the 491,000 recorded monthly during the hiring boom of 2021โ€“2022 that followed the COVID-19 lockdowns.

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

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