Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: Applications for unemployment benefits — a proxy for layoffs — have dipped to longtime lows. “While workers searching for their first job ... are having a hard time, those already in work have remarkably good job security,” one economist said.

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  This is a report on the latest United States weekly unemployment benefit data and its implications for current worker job security.

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