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Weekly Jobless Claims Decline

The Labor Department says the number of applications for unemployment insurance benefits in Ohio fell last week by 1-thousand.Nationally, claims fell by 23-thousand to a seasonally adjusted 393-thousand. It is the second straight decline after Superstorm Sandy drove applications higher earlier this month. A Labor Department analyst says the storm had little effect on the new data.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.