Few Americans file for jobless claims amid tight labor market
CBSN
The number of Americans filing for jobless aid ticked up last week but stayed at historically low levels, showing the labor market remains tight.
Some 202,000 people applied for first-time jobless aid in the week ending March 26, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's an increase of 14,000 from the previous week's number, which was the lowest weekly figure since 1969.
In total, 1.3 million Americans were collecting jobless aid for the week ending March 19, the lowest number since December 1969.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.