"Jesse Paloger holds up a sign while standing on Wall Street as he hopes to find a job, in New York. Paloger, who has an accounting and economics degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written on the bottom of his sign, ""Go-getter from California looking for my shot!"" Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits during the first full week of December, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the job market is slowly improving. (Photograph by Mark Lennihan/Associated Press.)"
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