unemployment numbers

despite totals they are declining

Filing for unemployment for the first time continues to go down... but the news remains grim on the job front.

The labor department is reporting nearly three million people applied for unemployment benefits last week.

It marks the sixth straight week that unemployment filings have gone down.

In kentucky... nearly 70,00 laid-off workers filed for unemployment last week.

That is down more than 13,000 from the previous week.

It marks the sixth straight week that unemployments filings have gone down.

Around 36 million have applied for jobless benefits in the last two months.

Of that number... around 750,000 were kentuckians.

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