New US jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 667,000
Yahoo! News
02/26/09
New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of laid-off Americans continuing to receive unemployment benefits topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence the recession is increasingly forcing employers to shed jobs. The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time requests for unemployment benefits jumped to 667,000 from the previous week’s figure of 631,000. Analysts had expected a slight drop in claims. The 667,000 new claims are the most since October 1982, though the labor force has grown by about half since then...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy_44
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=layoffs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployment
02/26/09
New jobless claims rose more than expected last week and the number of laid-off Americans continuing to receive unemployment benefits topped 5.1 million, fresh evidence the recession is increasingly forcing employers to shed jobs. The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time requests for unemployment benefits jumped to 667,000 from the previous week’s figure of 631,000. Analysts had expected a slight drop in claims. The 667,000 new claims are the most since October 1982, though the labor force has grown by about half since then...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090226/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy_44
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=layoffs
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=job+loss
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unemployment
rudkla - 27. Feb, 10:49
