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The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits was 197,000 in the week through Oct. 3, lower than the revised 199,000 reported a week earlier, the La…
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The U.S. added 115,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said Friday, far exceeding expectations. The unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 4.3%
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Consumer prices were up 3.3% in March from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Friday, much hotter than February's gain of 2.4%
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American employers added a seasonally adjusted 50,000 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell to 4.4%, the Labor Department reported Friday
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