jobless
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Weekly jobless claims totaled 206,000, down from the previous week’s downwardly revised 212,000 and slightly lower than forecast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Weekly jobless claims and producer prices for July are due at 8:30 a.m.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
U.S. initial jobless claims rose to 209,000 in the week through August 8, according to the Labor Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The jobless rate for returning students aged 15 to 24 was 15.1% in July, down 2.4 percentage points on a year prior but still elevated compared with a prepandemic average of 12.6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Let the flood descend, the flood of Poor peasants and poor soldiers, The flood of the poor jobless multitudes Let that flood descend!”
From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple
