Jobless claims shoot up to highest point since September 2005

Friday, April 4, 2008

WASHINGTON -- The number of new people signing up for unemployment benefits last week shot up to the highest level in more than two years, fresh evidence of the damage to a national economy clobbered by housing, credit and financial crises.

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