New unemployment claims in U.S. at highest level in over 3 months
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Dec. 17 (UPI) Close to 900,000 American workers have filed new unemployment claims, the Labor Department said Thursday in its weekly report.
The department said 885,000 workers filed new claims for the week ending Dec. 12, the most since early September. It also revised up last week s figure by 9,000 claims.
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The new figure is more than most experts predicted. The bulk of economists had expected about 815,000 new jobless claims.
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