The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits dropped a bit last week, but is still too high to suggest a real decline in the overall unemployment rate. Four hundred and three thousand people made initial unemployment beenfit claims, the Labor Department said–aa number down slightly from the revised figure of 409,000 for
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Jobless claims down a bit, still too high
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits dropped a bit last week, but is still too high to suggest a real decline in the overall unemployment rate. Four hundred and three thousand people made initial unemployment beenfit claims, the Labor Department said–aa number down slightly from the revised figure of 409,000 for
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Jobless claims down a bit, still too high