Thursday, May 7, 2009

601,000 New Jobless Claims Last Week

According to USA Today 601,000 workers filed for initial unemployment checks last week-->This is the lowest weekly rate in over 14 weeks. And once again it is an indicator that is "less bad than expected"

The amount of workers currently collecting unemployment benefits climbed to a record 6.35 million.

1 comment:

Layoff Moveon said...

This is good news! Now if we can just start creating more jobs, we'll be set!

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