The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits stayed at a 43-year low last week in the latest sign that layoffs are scarce.
THE NUMBERS: Weekly applications for unemployment benefits were unchanged at a seasonally adjusted 246,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell 3,500 to 249,250.
Both figures were at their lowest levels since November 1973.
The number of people receiving aid fell 16,000 to just over 2 million. That is the fewest since June 2000.
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