Record U.S. Exports Reflect Midwest Boom With 3.7% Unemployment

Record U.S. Exports Reflect Midwest Boom With 3.7% Unemployment
The unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.7 percent, and “if it wasn’t for cable news, we probably wouldn’t have any idea that the rest of the country was any different,” said Doug Johnson, co-owner of crop insurer TCI Insurance in West Fargo, who added six new employees this year.
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Year-Long Unemployment Extension? Democratic Senators Float Proposal
As Democrats attempt to position H.R.6419, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continuation Act, for another vote in the House of Representatives, where it failed to pass on Thursday, there remains the problem of passage in the U. S. Senate, which has no vote scheduled on the unemployment benefits extension issue.
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Unemployment data offer encouraging signs
The number of people applying for unemployment benefits barely rose last week, offering some hope that the job market may be improving. Initial claims for jobless aid increased by 2,000 to a seasonally adjusted 439,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.
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