Jobless claims fall for second straight week
Posted February 03, 2022 6:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits for the second week in a row after three straight weeks of increases.
Jobless claims fell by 23,000 to 238,000 last week, from 261,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The four-week average for claims, which compensates for weekly volatility, rose by nearly 8,000 to 255,000.
In total, 1.6 million Americans were collecting jobless aid the week that ended Jan. 22, a slight drop from the previous week.
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