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US achieves another pandemic low with 444,000 new unemployment claims

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again, viral infections drop and business restrictions ease.Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that applications declined 34,000 from a revised 478,000 a week earlier.

The number of weekly jobless claims — a rough measure of the pace of layoffs — has declined steadily since the year began.The data release coincides with rapid moves by nearly all the nation's Republican governors to cut off a $300-a-week federal unemployment benefit that they and many business executives blame for discouraging the unemployed from seeking jobs.

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