(CBS DETROIT) – Another 712,000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week.
That was better than expected.
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Economists are predicting that the nation’s unemployment rate ticked slightly lower to 6.8 percent.
In Michigan unemployment claims fell to over 21,000 last week.
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