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Fewer Americans filed for unemployment last week

The latest jobs report from the Department of Labor shows 751,000 Americans filed for unemployment in the week ending October 31, a decrease of 7,000 claims from the week before. Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst for Bankrate, looks at what these numbers mean for our economy.
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