The number of Americans applying for first-time unemployment benefits fell again last week, and for the first time in weeks, the number of initial unemployment claims in Wisconsin also fell.
National jobless claims dropped by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 358,000 in the week ended Feb. 4, near a four-year low, the U.S. Labor Department said.
In Wisconsin, initial claims fell to 13,599 from 15,045 in the prior week, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
The national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stands at 8.5 percent. Wisconsin's unemployment rate is 7.2 percent, but the state has lost private sector jobs for six consecutive months.
Operand type clash: text is incompatible with int
advertisement
Sorry, the story you tried to comment on is not accepting comments.