Initial claims for unemployment in regular state programs fell in the week ended September 26 by 36,000. That's the good news. Unfortunately, that left the total new claims for the week at at still very high 837,000. The recovery in the job market and the U.S. economy has become grindingly slow. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg […]


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