Numerology class

It's been a while ... New numbers on the economy...
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weekly Jobless claims
422,000
DOWN 1.4% from last week
(economists were expecting a bigger drop than that)
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more than 400,000 people have filed
Every week
For the last 8weeks
In a row
That's a total of
$2.4MILLION
people who lost their jobs, or got booted to PT work from FT work
In just two months
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34 statesand territories
INCREASED
Weekly unemployment rates
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7.68 MILLION
Collecting unemployment benefits
Monthly
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4 MILLION
Receiving EXTENDED benefits
(not included in above number)
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tomorrow new MONTHLY numbers come out ...
Such as how many jobs were "created"
Monthly unemployment %age rate