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August 11, 2022 - 8:44am | By Kyle Cornell
(Washington, DC) -- The number of initial jobless claims is up.
The newest report from the U.S. Department of Labor shows the week ending August 6th saw 262-thousand initial claims filed. That's up from 248-thousand the previous week.
That number was revised from the initial report of 260-thousand claims being filed.
The four-week moving average is at 252-thousand claims. That's an increase of 45-hundred from the week before.