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How many initial jobless claims will be filed on average in September 2020?

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	lower 25%	median	upper 75%	>7M
community	732.3k	828.5k	921k	0.3%
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Quartiles	community	My Prediction
lower 25%	732.3k	—
median	828.5k	—
upper 75%	921k	—
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>7M	0.3%	—

What was the final result?867.25k

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Authors:

AlyssaStevens

Opened:

Aug 16, 2020

Closes:

Sep 21, 2020

Resolves:

Oct 2, 2020

Spot Scoring Time:

Aug 18, 2020

Economy & Business

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