The fewest Americans asked for unemployment benefits since Spiro Agnew’s Des Moines address.
In the week ending Sept. 15, Americans made 201,000 initial unemployment insurance claims. That’s 3,000 less than the week before, and the lowest since the week ending Nov. 15, 1969, when it was 197,000, the Department of Labor (DOL) stated in a Sept. 20 release (pdf). The data is adjusted for seasonal fluctuations.
