jobless

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The dollar remained lower after U.S. data showed an unexpected downward revision in fourth-quarter economic growth and higher-than-forecast weekly jobless claims.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Weekly jobless claims and the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge — the personal-consumption expenditures index for February — and the second revision to fourth-quarter GDP are all due at 8:30 a.m.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

U.S. jobless claims rose to 219,000 in the week through April 4, the highest level since February, the Labor Department said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

He had been homeless for about five years and jobless even longer, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

They are told to wait and wait for Mr. Right even if that means, in a jobless ghetto, never having children at all.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander