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>> glor: good evening, im jeff glor, scott is off tonight. we begin with the latest good news about the economy and new signs that the job market is ealing. today the labor department said in the past month unemployment claims averaged 375,000 per pek, the fewest since june, 2008. for perspective, at the height of the recession in 2009, more than 600,000 american were applying for unemployment each apk. todays news triggered a rally on wall street. the dow closed up 136 points. ore now...

terms of growth. >> reporter: the number of unemployment claims ticked up last week but the overall trend this month is promising. >> basically the jobs market is moving out of recessionary territory into recovery. it doesnt look like the jobs market is healing. >> reporter: theres no stronger proof of that than at aide man, the p.r. firm thats added 120 jobs this year in its chicago office alone. new hire lauren newman wanted to move to chicago to be with her fiance and landed this jo...

off. duarte geraldino is in washington with more. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: mitt romney and ron paul clearly in the lead right now in iowa and hoping that position doesnt backfire on them like it did for rick perry and newt gingrich. mitt romneys campaign bus pulled into a packed warehouse in iowa trying to rev your voters. he attacked president obama suggesting he was out of touch with struggling americans and even comparing him to infamous french queen maria antoine...

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: good evening, im jeff glor, scott is off tonight. we begin with the latest good news about the economy and new signs that the job market is healing. today the labor department said in the past month unemployment claims averaged 375,000 per week, the fewest since june, 2008. for perspective, at the height of the recession in 2009, more than 600,000 american were applying for unemployment each week. todays news triggered a rally ...