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Improving Job Market Lifts U.S. Consumer Confidence: Economy
A construction worker in Lexington, Kentucky, on Feb. 13, 2015.
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An improving job market is doing wonders for U.S. consumer confidence.
The number of workers filing claims for jobless benefits fell by a more-than-projected 21,000 to 283,000 in the week ended Feb. 14, according to Labor Department data issued Thursday in Washington. Another report showed households are more upbeat in February about the economic outlook than at any time in the past four years.