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Thursday's economic report barrage included the U.S. Department of Labor's weekly jobless claims.
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The unemployment rate in the United States 4.8% in December. Five cities had unemployment rates much higher than, each well above 11%.
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Last week's jobless claims fell to 259,000. Bloomberg had the consensus estimate pegged higher at 272,000. We haven't seen claims this low since last October.
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The dying city of Flint, Mich., has a 4.6% unemployment, which is rate below the national rate, but the data mask crippling problems.
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If you just read the headline data from the Texas Workforce Commission on January's job trends, you would think it's still great news.
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Nonfarm payrolls rose by some 242,000 in the month of February, more than expected by Bloomberg or Dow Jones.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that weekly jobless claims were 278,000 last week, more than the Bloomberg consensus estimate.
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TrimTabs estimated that the United States added 55,000 to 85,000 jobs in February, the lowest level since July of 2013.
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ADP said that total private sector employment rose by 214,000 in February. That was handily higher than the consensus estimate from Bloomberg.
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The jobless rate in West Virginia for 2015 was 6.7%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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While it is likely to go much higher this year because of the collapse of the oil industry, North Dakota boasted the lowest 2015 unemployment rate in the United States.
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The U.S. Department of Labor reported that weekly jobless claims were at 272,000 in the week ending February 20. Its report from a week ago was 262,000. The consensus estimate from both Bloomberg and...
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While the jobless rate in the United States has dropped to less than 5%, it is more than 12% in Puerto Rico, which is worse than it was in America at the depths of the Great Recession.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has reported an unexpected drop in its reading on weekly jobless claims for the week ending February 13.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has released another installment of weekly jobless claims, and the report showed a much larger drop than expected.
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