Same Story From Weekly Jobless Claims
Weekly jobless claims declined by 29,000 last week, nudging the four week average down 3,500 to 470,750, the Department of Labor reported.
More than 5.6 million people have been unemployed so long that they’ve exhausted all but their emergency unemployment benefits, an increase of 200 thousand from the prior week and of 3.8 million from the prior year.
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The unemployment situation report comes out tomorrow, and economists are expecting an increase in the unemployment rate from 9.7
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