Tolja: Jobless Claims Rise To 410,000
Claims for unemployment insurance by the newly-laid off rose last week to 410,000, an increase of 25,000 from the previous week’s figure, the Labor Department announced today.
This puts jobless claims back more or less where they were two weeks ago, after hitting a 2.5 year low in the week ending February 4.
For the week of Jan. 29, the most recent week data were available, 9.3 million Americans were receiving some form of unemployment benefits from the government, including 3.6
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