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From an August 11, 2011 story on NPR, Reuters reports:
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims steady at 400,000. The prior week's figure was revised up to 402,000 from the previously reported 400,000.
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The four-week moving average of claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends, slipped 3,250 to 405,000. Economists say both initial claims and the four-week average need to drop close to 350,000 to signal a sustainable improvement in the labor market.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/11/139524874/new-unemploymen...
Just over one year later and the new number of claims required to show improvement, with fewer people actually working, has moved up? Madness.