Jobless claims bill OK’d by Senate (CNN Money)
The Senate on Wednesday approved a wide-ranging bill that would push back the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance until year-end and extends dozens of expired tax breaks.
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Subscribe to the comments for this postJobless claims drop; productivity revised higher (Detroit Free Press)
WASHINGTON — New claims for jobless benefits fell last week in a sign that layoffs may be easing as the economy slowly recovers.
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Asian Stocks Rise on U.S. Jobless Claims, BOJ; Nikkei Climbs (Bloomberg)
March 5 (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rose, driving the Nikkei 225 Stock Average to its biggest weekly gain this year, after U.S. jobless claims fell and the yen weakened on speculation the Bank of Japan will expand easing measures.
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Utah’s jobless claims starting to shrink (Provo Daily Herald)
Initial jobless claims in Utah are starting to moderate noticeably for the first time in a year, in yet another sign of the local economy’s nascent recovery, according to a state economist.
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U.S. jobless claims unexpectedly rise to 496,000 (MalaysiaNews.net)
The number of workers who filed initial claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly in the latest week to 496,000, a U.S. Labour Department report showed on Thursday. Analysts surveyed bef…
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Increase in jobless claims pushes down stocks (Washington Post)
Stocks dipped modestly Thursday after government data showed that jobless claims reached their highest levels since November, renewing concerns about the weak state of the labor market.
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Weekly US jobless claims jump to three-month high (AFP via Yahoo! News)
New claims for US jobless benefits jumped to a three-month high, the government said Thursday in a report underscoring ongoing struggles for the labor market and the economic recovery.
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Calif. jobless claims jump in January (Orange County Register)
California saw 834,329 unemployment claims filed in January, a 34% increase over the 621,468 in January of 2009 when the financial meltdown prompted employers to start slashing payrolls, reports the state Employment Development Department.
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New Jobless Claims Rise to 473K (MalaysiaNews.net)
Obama Touts Stimulus Progress One year since authorizing a massive stimulus, the Obama administration now claims that over 2 million jobs have been saved or created in the U.S. Chip Reid reports.
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Spike in first-time jobless claims (Everett Herald)
WASHINGTON — Layoffs aren’t slowing as fast as some analysts had expected. That was the message Thursday in a government report that the number of people filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose unexpectedly last week. Jobless claims rose by 31,000 to a seasonally adjusted 473,000.
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