CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar February 17, 2022 13:39:00
So just in moments ago, weekly jobless claims, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans has the numbers. what are they? >> they ticked up a little bit. these are layoffs, first time unemployment claims in a week. that is still near pandemic levels. numbers you want to see. when you look at the trend, you see the trend is very clearly a tapering off of these layoffs. this is a job market humming along and these numbers pretty much reinforce that. inflation, of course, is the big story. not the job market, the job market is so strong, it might be contributing to inflation in these highe...