Acceleration?

Delaware’s unemployment rate fell to 7.4-percent last month from 7.6% in November, according to the Department of Labor.

Nationally, more good news:

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits for the first time plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening. Weekly applications fell by 50,000, the biggest drop in the seasonally adjusted figure in more than six years.

That could mean that on February 3, the unemployment rate will fall from 8.5.