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Unemployment Insurance

A place for your unemployment insurance questions.

1M subscribers234 posts / mo in Sep 2026159 authors / mosince 2009

r/Unemployment has 1M members (+0.6% over the last 12 months). It gets about 234 posts a month from 159 people. Top topics: California EDD Issues, Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Issues.

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Size and growth

How r/Unemployment has grown

r/Unemployment

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+0.6%in 12 months · +0.1% in 3 months · +0.0% in 1 month
Oct 20261M
Growing1M subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/Unemployment

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−68%vs Sep 2025 · −16% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026234
QuieterPeaked at 3k in Sep 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/Unemployment

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. California EDD Issues13%
  2. Unemployment Benefits5.7%
  3. Unemployment Issues1.4%
  4. Unemployment Benefits & Workers0.7%
  5. Job Hunting Struggles0.6%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. NJ
  2. Id
  3. State of Michigan
  4. colorado
  5. Justia

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research