The Labor Department says 558, 000 newly-laid off Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, 4, 000 more than the previous week.
The Labor Department reported on Friday that just 67, 000 new private-sector jobs were created in August, while at least 125, 000 are needed to keep up with the growth of the potential work force.
Though the Labor Department said claims only fell modestly, any decline is uplifting because unemployment remains high.
There has been a cut in jobs in the building industry and the Labor Department report also shows a drop in factory jobs.
Before the U. S. market opened, the Labor Department reported that productivity grew at an annual rate of 2.3 percent during the third quarter, better than the initial estimate a month ago.
Earlier in the day, the Labor Department reported another jump in the number of people filing for government unemployment benefits.
The number of people collecting unemployment insurance plunged by 148, 000 in the week to June 6, the most since November 2001, to 6.69 million, the Labor Department said today.
Separately, the Labor Department said that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits for the first time fell by 3, 000 to a seasonally adjusted 420, 000.
But a Labor Department report shows that new claims for unemployment insurance rose unexpectedly last week.
The solution is not a male version of the Labor Department's Women's Bureau.
On Thursday, the Labor Department will announce the latest number, for June, and forecasters are expecting it to rise further.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook published by the Labor Department offers job market predictions through 2018. The highest growth is expected in biomedical engineering.
Labor Department said, in May there was an increase of about 41,000 job opportunities in the United States, while the unemployment rate dropped by 0.2% to 5.8%.
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