WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of people requesting unemployment benefits declined for the second straight week, suggesting that the slowing economy isn’t prompting widespread job cuts. New claims for unemployment aid fell last week by 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000, the Labor Department said today. Economists had expected a slight increase, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
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Right on point censoredship. I guess this is the change you can believe in, or is it the HOPE message. Wait until the summer employment ends, I guess they wil find a way to spin that also. The proof is in the near 10% unemployment rate remaining stagnant. Where is the improvement?
Yes sir Animal, I am one of those people that have been out of work for a long time,and it makes me sick how the liers that have part in running this country,say what they say about unemployment not as bad as it's been,and that is because they do not count us who have been off for A LONG time.There just are not any job's out there,believe me i have been pounding the pavement and turning up NOTHING!!!!!!!