By MARTIN CRUTSINGER -- AP Economics Writer
(Published May 8‚ 2008)
WASHINGTON (AP) The number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits dropped far more than expected last week.
The Labor Department reported Thursday that applications for unemployment benefits fell to 365,000, a decline of 18,000 from the previous week. Economists had been looking for a much smaller decrease of around 5,000.
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By MATTHEW DALY -- Associated Press Writer
(Published May 8‚ 2008)
WASHINGTON (AP) Workers in the Mariana Islands will receive the protection of U.S. labor law under a bill signed Thursday by President Bush.
Debate over whether to extend federal labor and immigration law to the Marianas, in the northwestern Pacific, had been sullied by reports of sweatshop labor and past associations with the lobbying scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff, whose firm was hired by the islands to oppose the changes.
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