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Those applying for unemployment benefits has increased

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This morning the labor department released numbers showing that 5,000 more people have applied for unemployment benefits last week. This means in all 239,000 people applied for unemployment total. Unemployment applications have been under 300,000 for 102 straight weeks, which is the longest in 47 years.

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