U.S. higher than expected unemployment benefits
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New US applications for unemployment benefits rose by 13,000 last week. Photo: AP
New applicants for 462,000 increase is only the second mounted weekly in two months, dampening hopes for a happier jobs U.S. perspective.
"Gain put an end to two straight and reinforced decreases that labour market recovery will not happen quickly," Andrew Gledhill Moody Analytics told AFP on Thursday.
Claims have declined significantly since the end of March, 2009, when first topped 650 000 claims, but have stagnated at around 450 000 since the beginning of the year .the last figure was higher than 445,000 forecast by economists.
This last benefit claims increase comes just weeks after the organisation of cooperation and development (OECD) has warned that in the long term unemployment may be a reality for many Americans.
The recession has left United States with a rate of unemployment in the long term - a measure of people unemployed for more than six months - 4 5pc, almost double its decline in the 1980s and 1990s.
The largest increases in claims weekly came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, where claims grew by 2,869 and 2,132 respectively in Florida and California, dropped claims by more than 5000.
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