Participants in a career fair wait in line to speak to employers in New York. The Labor Department says that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose to a seasonally adjusted 669,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 657,000. |
by KYW's Steve Tawa
On the day that the US Department of Labor announced that unemployment across the United States hit a 25-year high of 8.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics also released local numbers for the Philadelphia area.
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