Weekly Jobless Claims Tick Up From Lowest Level Since 2007
April 17, 2014 at 08:30 AM EDT
The number of people who applied for unemployment-insurance benefits ticked up by 2,000 to 304,000 in the week that ended April 12, a slight increase from the lowest level since 2007, signaling that employers are maintaining a slow pace of layoffs, according to government data released Thursday.