Jobless Claims Surge in Wake of Katrina
16th Sep 2005, 01:22 GMT
Hurricane Katrina triggered the biggest one-week surge in jobless claims in nearly a decade and analysts warn that's likely just the beginning of the bad economic news ahead as the nation starts paying for the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history.
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