Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, an encouraging sign that the job market is slowly healing. Weekly applications fell 9,000 to 397,000, only the third time since April that the figure has dropped below 400,000.

Here are the states with the biggest increases and decreases. The state data is for the week ended Oct. 22, one week behind the national figures.

States with the biggest increases:

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