{"id":335144,"date":"2011-03-24T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/first-time-unemployment-claims-fall\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T12:40:22","slug":"first-time-unemployment-claims-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/first-time-unemployment-claims-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"First-time unemployment claims fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"66.2323157111\"><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Annalyn Censky, staff reporter<\/span><span>March 24, 2011: 9:15 AM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The government added about 5,000 fewer newcomers to its unemployment benefit rolls last week.<\/p>\n<p>Americans filing first-time unemployment claims fell to 382,000, in the week ended March 19, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was down from the previous week&#8217;s revised 387,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While a 5,000 decrease isn&#8217;t a huge number, any move downward is very good news,&#8221; said Jennifer Lee, senior economist with BMO Capital Markets. &#8220;At the end of the day, Americans need to have a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Initial claims often bump around from week to week, but overall, they&#8217;ve trended lower since the beginning of the year, pointing to improvement in the job market, albeit at a sluggish pace.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-week moving average of initial claims, which smooths out volatility, is at its lowest level since 2008, after falling 1,500 to 385,250 from the previous week&#8217;s revised average of 386,750. <\/p>\n<p>The number of Americans filing for their second week of benefits or more dropped 2,000 to 3,721,000 in the week ended March 12, the most recent data available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/24\/news\/economy\/initial_claims\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0e63013ebug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Published: March 24, 2011: 8:39 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0e63013ebug.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read more:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/wthrZ0cxJOc\/index.htm\" title=\"First-time unemployment claims fall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First-time unemployment claims fall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Annalyn Censky, staff reporter March 24, 2011: 9:15 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) &#8212; The government added about 5,000 fewer newcomers to its unemployment benefit rolls last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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