Applications for US unemployment rise to 315K

By Christopher Rugaber

Published September 11, 2014 12:52pm ET

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Applications for US unemployment rise to 315K — In this June 12, 2014 photo, Laura MacDonald, 25, interviews for an administrative sales position at the Cleveland Career Fair in Independence, Ohio. The U.S. Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. The report will be released Thursday Sept. 11, 2014 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak) | Tony Dejak

WASHINGTON (AP) — More people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, though the trend in benefit applications in the past month remained low.

The Labor Department says that weekly applications for unemployment aid rose 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 315,000, the most since late June. Still, the four-week average of applications, a less volatile measure, rose just 750 to 304,000. The average is 7.1 percent lower than it was a year ago.

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