Press Release - President Biden's Economic Plan is Working: the 4-Week Average of New Unemployment Claims Drops Below 400k For the First Time Since the Pandemic Began

When President Biden took office, over 800,000 new unemployment claims were being filed every week on average. While weekly data can be volatile, today, thanks to the President's success in defeating the virus and getting economic relief to American workers and families, the four-week moving average for initial unemployment insurance claims declined yet again – and it is now below 400,000 for the first time since March 2020. This is further proof that President Biden's economic plan is working.

We also learned today that the Conference Board's leading economic indicators (LEI) index, a measure of current economic conditions, increased for the third consecutive month in May.

This data reaffirms the positive signs we're seeing across the economy. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve updated their projections to show the American economy growing in 2021 at 7% -- the fastest rate since 1984 – and an increase from 5% in their projections for 2021 this time last year. The OECD and World Bank similarly have roughly doubled their projections for America's economic growth in 2021 thanks to the policies put in place by this administration.

While the data can be noisy and move around from week to week the trend is clear: economic growth is up, unemployment is down, and America is roaring back thanks to the President's leadership.

President Biden's economic plan is working.