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The number of people seeking unemployment aid in the U.S. fell to a four-year low last week, bolstering the view that the job market is strengthening.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications dropped 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 348,000, the lowest level since February 2008. The four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, dipped to 355,000. That's also a four-year low.
Applications have steadily declined since last fall. The drop has coincided with the best three months of hiring in two years. From December through February, employers added an average of 245,000 jobs per month. That's pushed down the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.
The report suggests that employers likely added a similar level of jobs in March.
Companies are hiring more because the economy is picking up. The economy grew at an annual rate of 3 percent in the final three months of last year. That was better than the 1.7 percent rate in the previous quarter.
There are other signs the economy is steadily recovering. Consumers are more confident and have stepped up spending. Auto sales are rising. Even the battered housing market is showing signs of improving.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/22/us-jobless-claims-drop-to-four-year-low/?test=latestnews#ixzz1prKOk7CN
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I doubt it. They're leaving something out.
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Liberal propaganda
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but its from fox news the GOP bible.
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Liberals have infiltrated Fox News, there's no lengths to which these commie cockroaches will not go to lie to the American people and subvert the fourth estate.
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Sith_Mauler posted:
but its from fox news the GOP bible.
Its from the Labor Department, which is owned by Ubarry.
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Your facts and figures will not cloud my vision to what my eyes tell me: Things are terrible in this country and it's all Obama's fault.
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Its all thanks to Ron Pauls strong 3rd place finish in Ill.
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I saw a guy eating soup out of an old tire! SOUP! FROM AN OLD TIRE!!! Don't tell me things are getting better!
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the only reason the economy is doing better is because it is finally healing after all the government intervention that took place in 2008.
It is akin to thanking EDIT: ANY GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL that the sun came up today.
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