Sentence examples for claims declining from inspiring English sources

With claims declining, Ms. Jackson, 47, said she went on unemployment herself, hoping the economy would take care of her one way or the other.

The Department of Labor showed initial unemployment claims declining, and the stock market was up more than 200 points as investors bought into assurances by the chief of the European Central Bank that he would do "whatever it takes" to save the euro zone.

Which is why, for example, climatologists, who have actually studied the data and know how to interpret it, tend to carefully hedge their claims, declining to assert any direct causality or make predictions, whereas professional obfuscators will confidently assure you that global warming is a lot of alarmist hooey.

The number of new claims declined 6,000, to 388,000.

Jobless claims declined 15,700 to 890,000, while the jobless rate hovered at 5.5% in the first quarter.

The number of people filing first-time unemployment claims declined by 5,000 last week to 457,000.

The Labor Department said on Thursday that the less volatile four-week average of jobless claims declined just 500 to 339,500.

Initial jobless claims declined by 1,000 from the previous week, but remain 10,000 about their level on October 10.

Meanwhile, both the national unemployment rate and weekly unemployment claims decline slightly as private employment and online job demand rise.

It was the second consecutive week that claims declined, and analysts had been expecting a rise in initial claims.

Continuing claims declined 84,000 in the week ended Oct. 11, to 3.542 million, the lowest since April 5, the Labor Department said.