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Medicaid Cuts to Hospitals

…tax revenues, can jeopardize funding for schools and infrastructure. The multiplier effect means that each healthcare job supports additional jobs in related sectors such as food services, transportation, and construction….

Initial claims lower than one year ago

…is -6.5% less.  Last year this week the seasonal multiplier was *1.0655: Applying it gives us an estimated seasonally adjusted number of 224,000, a decline of -4,000 from one week…