[CharlesWayneCT]

Which gets it back to about what they expected a month ago, before the weeks of “unexpected” higher numbers.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

[VanDeKoik]

Those 440,000 other people, whom actually lost their jobs, are just tickled pink!

[Huck]

That’s still almost half a million people. Not good.

[Daisyjane69]

How many more people can businesses cut while hanging on?

They’re already down to the useless brother’s in law. Next cuts they have to make carve into the family members.

meh

[paulycy]

BREAKING NEWS: We’re failing more slower. For now.

[R_Kangel]

Feds are about to hire 1,000,000 or so people for the big census.......that otta look good on the books......for a few months.

[kingattax]

the propaganda machine is in overdrive

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I’m no expert on this, but I still can’t figure out how we had a net loss of jobs over the last quarter but the unemployment figure fell from 10.1% to 9.7%. I thought you would have to have a net jobs gain in order for the unemployment to fall. At least thats what my basic math tells me. Someone help me with this? Do this mean that there were more people who fell off collecting unemployment than applied for it? I don’t get it...

[GoldenPup]

First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell by the largest amount since July

Obviously...THEY COOKED THE BOOKS. Now, everybody knows "Enron Accounting". THEY LIE...STILL.

[Iron Munro]

First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell by the largest amount since July.

That's because we are running out of people to lay off.
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[celmak]

3 months from now we will see what the adjustment is...

[The Anti-One]

Doesn't this mean that 440,000 people lost their jobs last week? Who gives a rat's arse if a few thousand more or less didn't? How many more have and are going to lose theirs this week? And more to the point... Those that were already on unemployment? Have they found a job yet^? or have their benefits simply run out?

Let's get past the spin and point out the reality.

Millions are out of work and tens of millions more are headed that way.

JMHO

[The Sons of Liberty]

Expect more and more propaganda, and manufactured statistics leading up to the elections.

[newnhdad]

Only when a democrat is president is losing almost half a million jobs an unexpected good thing.

[ETL]

Seems the only thing that can be “expected” in these reports is that the results will be unexpected by the ‘experts’.

[exit82]

In the grand scheme of things, this is insignificant.

This is akin to a rounding error.

And there is no way unemployment went down to 9.7%, and the GDP went up 5.7% in the fourth quarter.

Let’s just call it what it is—they are cooking the books. The corrections will come in two or three months from now when no one cares about these numbers anymore. The Clinton administration had hined this type of quackery to a fine science.

Funny how a lot of the Zero administration are old Clinton hands.

[Uncle Chip]

First-time claims for state unemployment benefits fell by the largest amount since July.

Yeh -- first-time claims might have fallen, but what about second-time and third-time and fourth-time filers. We now have a permanent class of unemployment claim filers.

[tiki]

So we are still hemorrhaging jobs.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The idea that things are looking rosier because an arbitrary number was off by something less than one percent is really a bit preposterous.