New Labor Department data show initial unemployment claims dropped to a level reached only four times in more than half a century, a year-to-date pace not seen since the late 1960s. Initial jobless claims fell by 10,000 to 196,000 in the week ended September 12, the Labor Department reported Thursday, beating economists' forecasts by a […] The post Weekly jobless claims fall to 196,000, a level almost never recorded since 1969 appeared first on American Almanac .
New Labor Department data show initial unemployment claims dropped to a level reached only four times in more than half a century, a year-to-date pace not seen since the late 1960s. Initial jobless claims fell by 10,000 to 196,000 in the week ended September 12, the Labor Department reported Thursday, beating economists' forecasts by a wide margin. Wall Street had expected roughly 207,000 new filings. The actual number came in more than 11,000 below that estimate, a gap that is hard to dismiss as statistical noise. Before this year, weekly claims had dipped to 196,000 or lower just four times since 1969. Not once between 1970 and 2018 did the number fall this low. The current figure puts the labor market in territory that most working…Open
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