The United States Department Of Labor continues to report staggering numbers today of those filing unemployment, which has been the case every week for nearly a year, this week numbers rose up again at 745,000, 9,000 more from last’s week 736,000 that also revised up from 730,000.
Even though more claims were filed from last week, the insured unemployment rate dropped 0.1 percent to an even 3 percent with last week’s figure unrevised, the figure of the actual insured unemployment also dropped 124,000 to 4,295,000 while in a very unusual case, last week’s 4,448,000 stayed unchanged.
Daniel Quintanilla
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