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Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report
03/20/2014 08:30 AM EDT

IIn the week ending March 15, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 320,000, an increase of 5,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure of 315,000. The 4-week moving average was 327,000, a decrease of 3,500 from the previous week's unrevised average of 330,500.
Statement by US Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez on veterans' employment
03/20/2014 10:15 AM EDT

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today issued the following statement regarding the release of the 2013 Employment Situation of Veterans report by the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Nicaraguan coffee producer Isidro León-York awarded US Labor Department's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor
03/20/2014 02:30 PM EDT

Carol Pier, deputy undersecretary for the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs, today announced Isidro León-York of Nicaragua as the recipient of the department's 2013 Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor. U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua Phyllis M. Powers presented the award to Mr. León-York at a ceremony today in Managua.