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C1 3 number of americans filing for unemployment falling below one- million.
Fs vo bullets:no unemployment claims source: u.s. department of labor last week: ..
U.s.: 881,000 claims ... that hasn't happened since early august.
The u-s labor department says 881-thousand americans filed initial claims for benefits last week.
That's down 130,000 from the week before.
Here in kentucky.... 16,195 first-time claims were filed last week.... down about 126 from the previous week.
In the u-s.... there were 13-million continued jobless claims filed... which counts people filing for benefits for at least two weeks in a row.
In kentucky.... more than 116,000 continued claims were
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