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Still under 300k.
Jobless claims rose by 3,000 to 271,000 in the week ended June 20, a Labor Department report showed Thursday in Washington. The median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for 273,000 new applications.
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The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, dropped to 273,750 from 277,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 22,000 to 2.25 million in the week ended June 13. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.7 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
