January 28, 2010
First-Time Unemployment Claims Down 8K
By Matthew L. Brown
In the week ending Jan. 23, 470,000 Americans filed claims for unemployment insurance coverage, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
That's a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 478,000. The 4-week moving average was 456,250, an increase of 9,500 from the previous week.
The insured unemployment rate was 3.5 percent for the week ending Jan. 16, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week.
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