Sept. 7 (UPI) — Weekly first time unemployment insurance claims fell to the lowest seasonally-adjusted weekly total since February, but still remained stubbornly above the 200,000 mark, the Labor Department said on Thursday.
Workers filing for initial unemployment benefits, one indicator that judges the stability of the U.S. workforce and the economy, reached 216,000 for the week ending Sept. 2, a drop of 13,000 from the week before. That figure was revised up 1,000 to 229,000.