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To: mishedlo who wrote (3307)	4/1/2004 9:20:28 AM
From: mishedlo	Respond to of 116555

U.S. jobless claims steady at 3-year low By Rex Nutting WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - The average number of weekly filings for state unemployment benefits over the past four weeks was unchanged last week at 340,250, matching the lowest since January 2001, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Initial claims for benefits in the week ending March 27 fell 3,000 to 342,000 from a revised 345,000. The four-week average is considered a better gauge of job destruction trends than the more-volatile weekly number. The number of Americans continuing to receive state jobless benefits rose by 32,000 to 3.06 million in the week ending March 20. The four-week average dipped by about 15,000 to 3.06 million, the lowest since August 2001.