First-Time Jobless Claims Drop
(Undated) — Fewer Americans are seeking out first-time unemployment benefits. The Labor Department reports today that the number of initial jobless claims fell by six-thousand last week to 213-thousand. Analysts had been expecting that number to come in at right around 217-thousand. At the same time however, the number of continuing claims – those people who were already collecting benefits – rose by 29-thousand to one-point-76 million.
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