( ) -q-29- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “November 27, 2021.” The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week but remain at slightly elevated though not troubling levels. [CutID: <Cuts> JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 29s Title: JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam Out-cue: November 27,2021] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly unemployment claims are widely considered representative of layoffs, and […]
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Fewer Americans file for jobless benefits last week
( ) -q-29- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “November 27, 2021.”
The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week but remain at slightly elevated though not troubling levels.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly unemployment claims are widely considered representative of layoffs, and though they have trended higher recently, they remain at historically healthy levels.
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VERBATIM: The Labor Department says jobless claims for the week of August 3 fell by 17,000 to 233,000 last week. That’s fewer than the 240,000 analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting. Continuing claims, which represent the total number of Americans collecting unemployment benefits, rose by 6,000 to 1.88 million for the Week of July 27. That the most since the week of November 27, 2021.