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US applications for jobless claims fall to lowest level in 9 weeks
Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite higher interest rates..
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C1 3 here in kentucky.
Fs vo bullets:no unemployment claims source: u.s. labor dept.
Last week: ..
- u.s.: 837,000 new claims ..
... according to the u-s labor department... another 837- thousand americans filed for initial unemployment claims last week.
That was down slightly from the prior week.
However.... those figures do not include updated numbers from california.
The state paused processing initial claims for two weeks... so the labor department had to estimate california's numbers.
In kentucky.... 7,254 new claims were filed... down by 11- hundred from the week before.
As for continued claims... that number stood at eleven-point-eight million in the u-s.
That's down by 980- thousand.
In kentucky... there were 113,140 continued claims filed... down by almost 6,000.
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