( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the week before.” The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week. [CutID: <Cuts> JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam.mp3 Time: 21s Title: JOBLESS-CLAIMS-house-q-THUam Out-cue: the week before] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly filings for unemployment benefits, which are a proxy for layoffs, remain low by historic standards. ———————————- […]
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U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inch up
( ) -q-21- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “the week before.”
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose modestly last week.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Weekly filings for unemployment benefits, which are a proxy for layoffs, remain low by historic standards.
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VERBATIM: The Labor Department says jobless claims rose by 4,000 to 232,000 for the week of August 17th. The four-week average of claims ticked down by 750 to 236,000. For the week ending August 10, 1.86 million Americans were collecting jobless benefits, 4,000 more than the week before.