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• s  not having a job
  jobless transients

• Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco put out a research report today raising the prospect of yet another jobless recovery.
• The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits dropped last week, and the number of people remaining on the rolls also fell.
• Fewer benefits mean harder times for the jobless It is one of the most watched, and most politically potent, of the monthly economic figures issued by Washington, and it.

• idle
• out of work

News & Articles

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• Jobless claims fall; labor market healing ongoing
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, nearing its lowest level in five years in a sign of resilience for the U.S. labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 334,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was the smallest number of first-time applications since early ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Jobless claims drop, showing labor market still healing
  The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, nearing its lowest level in five years in a sign of resilience for the U.S. labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 334,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. That was the smallest number of first-time applications since early May and near levels last ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Jobless Claims Drop by 12,000
  The U.S. Labor Department said first-time jobless benefits claims dropped by 12,000 to 334,000 in the week that ended Saturday. The department generally revises the previous week's estimate. This week the department left it alone at 346,000.
  June 13, 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com

Quotes

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• Doc Hastings in Washington Post
  With more Americans filing jobless claims than at any time since the 1992, the Senate's passage of the House's unemployment insurance extension legislation will help speed relief to more than 2 million workers who continue to search for new jobs in... Nancy Pelosi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE6ffllKZJZfRyJWl2rDC7vxnKcwQ TIME http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1861086,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGVH9j2yBOOjB8f0hxyfrTBHt267g Nov 21, 2008 54703 72197 jobless Our nation can't afford to shut down the creation of jobs for jobless Americans, and we can't afford to become even more dependent on foreign sources of energy," Hastings said.
• Dave Prentis in Mirror.co.uk
  Unison's general secretary Dave Prentis said: "The plans set out in this dismal Queen's Speech spell danger for public services, and for economic growth and offer little hope to either the young or long-term jobless."