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February 6, 2026

Applications for jobless benefits jumped last week

By MATT OTT
AP Business Writer

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week but remains in the same historically low range of the past few years.

Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 31 rose by 22,000 to 231,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's significantly more than the 211,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.


 
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