Newsmaker: Unemployment claims exceed forecast

Unemployment
In this Aug. 3, 2009 photo, people looking for work search on computers at a Worksource office in Portland, Ore. Employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent. It was a better than expected showing that offered a strong signal that the recession is finally ending.
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