New claims fell by 23,000 to 452,000 last week, but that’s offset somewhat by the prior week’s total being revised upward by 13,000. The numbers were a little better than expected, but still not enough to indicate a recovery g…
Initial jobless claims fell slightly more than expected last week.
Claims dropped 23,000 to 452,000 in the week ending Oct. 16, the Department of Labor said. The revised figure for the previous week was 475,000.
A Reuters poll of analysts forecast c…
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose 13,000 to 462,000, but continuing claims plunged another 112,000 to 4.4 million, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Some of the decline in continuing claims comes from people who have exhausted their benef…
This week’s report offered news of decent progress on the labor front, as claims fell 11,000 to 445,000. That’s the lowest since early July. Still, any number over 400,000 shows there’s still a long way to go.
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The number of new and continuing jobless claims fell last week, a sign of modest progress in the labor market. After a seasonal rise this summer, claims appear to be trending lower.
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