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The numbers: Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose in early September one week after falling to a pandemic low, but the increase partly stemmed from Hurricane Ida and is likely to prove temporary.
Initial jobless benefit claims rose 20,000 to 332,000 in the week ended Sept. 11, the government said Thursday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had estimated new claims would total 318,000.
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