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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 888419" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNEMPLOYMENT_BENEFITS?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2011-10-13-08-47-30" target="_blank">JOBLESS CLAIMS TOP 400K AGAIN...</a>WASHINGTON&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (AP) -- The number of people applying for unemployment benefits was mostly unchanged last week.They need to fall consistently below 375,000&nbsp; to signal sustainable job growth. They haven&#039;t been below that level&nbsp; since February.Employers have added an average of only&nbsp; 72,000 jobs in the past five months. That&#039;s far below the 125,000 per&nbsp; month needed to keep up with population growth. And it&#039;s down from an&nbsp; average of 180,000 in the first four months of this year.&nbsp;Employers laid off 1.66 million people in August, the Labor Department&#039;s report said Wednesday.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 888419, member: 12952"] [B][URL="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNEMPLOYMENT_BENEFITS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-13-08-47-30"][COLOR=red]JOBLESS CLAIMS TOP 400K AGAIN...[/COLOR][/URL] [/B]WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people applying for unemployment benefits was mostly unchanged last week. They need to fall consistently below 375,000 to signal sustainable job growth. They haven't been below that level since February. Employers have added an average of only 72,000 jobs in the past five months. That's far below the 125,000 per month needed to keep up with population growth. And it's down from an average of 180,000 in the first four months of this year. Employers laid off 1.66 million people in August, the Labor Department's report said Wednesday. [/QUOTE]

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