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Topic: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?

Altra_Shadowstalker Posts: 17,553 Registered: Jan 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 16,076 User ID: 616,837	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	I'd google them but I want to have a consistent source. Last I heard, the estimated rates indicated that we were barely treading water... Were those numbers revised? And have new numbers come out? Thanks. -----signature----- "Goddammit, Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I could th'ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie." I don't typo often, but when I do, I blame Swype.
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Elkad Title: aka Ebenezer Posts: 8,058 Registered: Sep 11, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 7,478 User ID: 837,586	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	bls.gov Headline rate is down slightly. But only because masses of workers are falling off the backside of the benefits, becoming "discouraged workers" or otherwise dropping off the statistics. Employment rate of the population continues to fall. There are 2 million more eligible workers than 12 months ago, but less total people are working. -----signature----- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 38,362 Registered: Sep 20, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 31,453 User ID: 718,633	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	Elkad posted: Employment rate of the population continues to fall. That's to be expected no matter what the job market is. Or do they only count people not in school and not retirement age? More people are going to school than ever before and the boomers are starting to retire. Of course the employment rate is going to continue to fall as a %, and it will continue to do so for at least another decade or two. -----signature----- (none)
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Elkad Title: aka Ebenezer Posts: 8,058 Registered: Sep 11, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 7,478 User ID: 837,586	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	Employment rate is available by age bracket as well. It's falling in several categories. Non-disabled men, 16-64, steady at 82.4% employed. Same category, women, down from 71.2% to 70.5%. Employment for over-65 is actually UP 0.8% - So the drop isn't coming from there. It's chopped up a bunch of ways, take a look at the report. Latest report link -----signature----- "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL Posts: 25,187 Registered: Dec 21, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 25,057 User ID: 568,022	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	Sorry, I'll resume my weeklies next week. I was on a rare vacation last Thursday. I pull that 'layman summarized' version I post from a mix of BLS, CNBC analysis, another forum I frequent, and Shadowstats. Some of those sources are weekly, some monthly/daily. -----signature----- In the immortal words of Socrates - "I drank what?" "God you guys suck at the internet - how can you fail to locate porn?!" - Eternal_Midnight "Knowing means nothing." - Fat-badger
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi Posts: 25,948 Registered: Mar 25, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 22,707 User ID: 661,552	Subject: Anyone have the weekly jobless rates?
	The more interesting unemployment numbers will be in February. Both government and private sector employers will resume handing out pink slips next month and it's going to take a little while for that to sink in. -----signature----- "Take the cheese to sickbay!"
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