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Weekly Jobless Claims Hold Steady

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By Mark Memmott

Published August 8, 2013 at 6:53 AM MDT

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The scene at a job fair in Manhattan earlier this year.

There were 333,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, . Claims were up 1.5 percent from the previous week's 328,000 鈥� and basically remained at the lower end of the range where they've stayed for the better part of the last two years.

Bloomberg 暗黑爆料 dissects the report and :

"The fewest workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits over the past month since before the last recession, indicating the labor market is making progress. The number of claims in the four weeks ended Aug. 3 declined to 335,500 on average, the least since November 2007."

Reuters also :

"The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits rose slightly last week but was near its lowest level since before the 2007-09 recession, a hopeful sign for the U.S. economy."

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