ByTy Roush,
Forbes Staff.
The number of Americans who filed for unemployment rose more than expected from mid-September to mid-October, according to the Labor Department, whose key economic reports were delayed during the government shutdown.
Applications for jobless benefits in the U.S. totaled 232,000 in the week ending Oct. 18, according to Labor Department data, an increase over the last reported 219,000 applications for the week ending Sept. 20 and above the Dow Jones consensus of 223,000 claims.
Continuing jobless claims, or the number of people receiving benefits, rose slightly to 1.957 million from 1.947 million the previous week.
