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WASHINGTON, June 2, 2021 (AFP) - After kicking their massive lending powers into overdrive to help the nations hardest hit by COVID-19 last year, the IMF and the World Bank are now focusing on getting vaccines to poor countries to keep the pandemic from derailing the global economic recovery.
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2021-04-08 14:05:31 GMT2021-04-08 22:05:31(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Xinhua) Initial jobless claims in the United States rose to 744,000 last week, marking an increase for a second straight week, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
In the week ending April 3, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits increased by 16,000 from the previous week s upwardly revised level of 728,000, according to a report released by the department s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
This follows a drop to revised level of 658,000 in the week ending March 27, the lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the bureau.
The latest report also showed that the number of people continuing to collect regular state unemployment benefits in the week ending March 27 decreased by 16,000 to reach 3.7 million.