( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the previous week.” The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week. [CutID: <Cuts> JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 19s Title: JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam Out-cue: the previous week] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week. […]
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Number of Americans applying for jobless claims remains historically low
( ) -q-19- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the previous week.”
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits was unchanged last week.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly unemployment claims are considered a proxy for the number of U.S. layoffs in a given week.
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VERBATIM: The Labor Department reports unemployment claims for the week ending April 27 was 208,000, the same as the previous week. That’s the fewest since mid-February. In total, 1.77 million Americans were collecting jobless benefits during the week that ended April 20. That’s also the same as the previous week.