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Good news!
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-naw-unemployment-numbers-20120209,0,5615495.story
The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid neared a four-year low last week, an encouraging sign that strong hiring could continue in the coming months.
The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted 358,000. That's the second-lowest level since April 2008.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell to 366,250, the lowest since late April 2008. When applications fall consistently below 375,000, it usually signals that hiring is strong enough to lower the unemployment rate.
A consistent decline in applications has coincided with the best job growth since last spring.
Employers added a net gain of 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists had projected. That was the biggest gain in nine months. The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month to 8.3 percent.
From November through January, the economy has added an average of 201,000 net jobs per month.
The increased hiring in part reflects faster economic growth. The economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the final three months of last year -- a full percentage point higher than the previous quarter.
Most economists expect growth will slow a bit in the current quarter, because companies won't need to rebuild their stockpiles of goods as much as they did in the winter.
But some economists are increasingly optimistic that the economy will steadily expand this year, given last month's unexpectedly large job gains and other positive signs.
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This is because Obama has made it so nobody has a job. You can't be laid off if you don't have a job. Ron Paul can fix this.
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thepolitrolls posted:
Only because 40 bazillion people just gave up applying anymore because Obama is black. So that is very misleading.
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regulator_cracka posted:
thepolitrolls posted:
Only because 40 bazillion people just gave up applying anymore because Obama is black. So that is very misleading.
Just because it's true doesn't mean it is trolling.
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really?
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you aren't eligible forever.
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This just means all those people finally used up all their benefits and can't draw anymore. It does not mean they finally found jobs.
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It is a positive trend nonetheless, much to the chagrin of the Republicans who value taking the Presidency over the good of the people of the United States of America.
God bless the United States of America, and damm those who wish us ill will and want us to fail.
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Spookysheep posted:
This just means all those people finally used up all their benefits and can't draw anymore. It does not mean they finally found jobs.
Probably accurate, I thought the same thing.
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regulator_cracka posted:
Spookysheep posted:
This just means all those people finally used up all their benefits and can't draw anymore. It does not mean they finally found jobs.
Probably accurate, I thought the same thing.
SPOOKY SIGHTING! Everyone hide!
Oh they may have found jobs - just that they now work at McDonalds or they took their Master's degree and 3+ years of experience and are now dealing with at-risk children at private institutions for pennies on the dollar of what they're actually worth.
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Cawlin and Spooky! IT IS FULL BLOWN INVASION!!
BUG OUT ACF!!! BUG OUT!
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Hyperimiator posted:
It is a positive trend nonetheless, much to the chagrin of the Republicans who value taking the Presidency over the good of the people of the United States of America.
God bless the United States of America, and damm those who wish us ill will and want us to fail.
Am I damned? I mean I don't want the US to fail just the entirety of humanity. If I was zapped with gamma radiation and got super powers or had a moon base I would totally be actively trying to wipe out or enslave mankind.
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tillsb posted:
Hyperimiator posted:
It is a positive trend nonetheless, much to the chagrin of the Republicans who value taking the Presidency over the good of the people of the United States of America.
God bless the United States of America, and damm those who wish us ill will and want us to fail.
Am I damned? I mean I don't want the US to fail just the entirety of humanity. If I was zapped with gamma radiation and got super powers or had a moon base I would totally be actively trying to wipe out or enslave mankind.
Perhaps, traitor to the human race!
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tillsb posted:
Hyperimiator posted:
It is a positive trend nonetheless, much to the chagrin of the Republicans who value taking the Presidency over the good of the people of the United States of America.
God bless the United States of America, and damm those who wish us ill will and want us to fail.
Am I damned? I mean I don't want the US to fail just the entirety of humanity. If I was zapped with gamma radiation and got super powers or had a moon base I would totally be actively trying to wipe out or enslave mankind.
Nah, you're fine. You have good ideas. You can actually get enough gamma radiation to get super powers if you cook yourself in a large microwave oven while wearing a tinfoil suit.
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don't worry spooky, the dirty feeling of posting here will soon fade.
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Tipztoe posted:
don't worry spooky, the dirty feeling of posting here will soon fade.
and that is da fun beginz....
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Don't think its just hippy democrats receiving unemployment hand-outs 'cause I know a God-blessing 'conservative' family that have been on unemployment for around 2 years or more. And they receive food stamps.
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.Kid. posted:
Don't think its just hippy democrats receiving unemployment hand-outs 'cause I know a God-blessing 'conservative' family that have been on unemployment for around 2 years or more. And they receive food stamps.
They aren't true conservatives then.
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isn't this about the time the unemployment numbers were supposed to start dropping?
not just the new applicants, but those ON unemployment because they get kicked off?
its sad that with all our technology we cant get a REAL number on unemployment.
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Some people are just never happy.
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finally, about time those damn long term unemployed sponges dropped off the rolls they can go live under a rock some where. at least my stock will go up now.
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notmforce2k posted:
Some people are just never happy.
nope
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