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Applications for US unemployment benefits rise to 317k last week; still at pre-recession level
US News ^ | 06/12/2014

Posted on 06/12/2014 6:44:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

More Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, but claims for jobless aid remain near pre-recession levels.

The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment benefits rose 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 317,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, increased to 315,250. These figures are close to the jobless claims levels before the outbreak of the Great Recession in December 2007.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: joblessclaims; jobs; unemployment
It's fun with Thursday job numbers once again.
1 posted on 06/12/2014 6:44:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Quick note: Last week, it was 312,000.


2 posted on 06/12/2014 6:45:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bring back jobs to America.

Stop importing everything.


3 posted on 06/12/2014 6:46:29 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a pant load these A-holes in the Obama media spread. Could you imagine a sustained unemployment loss of 1.2 million new claims a month for Bush? Remember all the talk of a ‘jobless recovery’ in 2002-3 when unemployment was at 5%?

This idiot has real U-3 above 7% and U-6 at 12% and he can do no wrong.

God! I hate these people with a boiling rage!


4 posted on 06/12/2014 6:49:20 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Think it is bad now? Wait until Johnny Boehner bends over for the $10.10 Hour minimum wage indexed for inflation!


5 posted on 06/12/2014 6:50:17 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not keeping up with the population growth, and certainly not counting the influx of ILLEGALS into the underserved workforce. Cloward-Piven on display.


6 posted on 06/12/2014 7:16:18 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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