Weekly U.S. jobless aid applications drop to 2-month low

Kara Iwasaki, left, of Kumabe Human Resources, spoke with Kanani Ahmow and her daughter, Charel Ahmow, at the Sep. 18 Job Quest job fair at the Neal Blaisdell exhibition hall. The Labor Department said today that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 29,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 343,000, the lowest in two months. It is the second-lowest total this year.