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Jobless Claims Post Biggest Fall Since April
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| 7/5/12
| Reuters
Posted on 07/05/2012 6:25:10 AM PDT by facedown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. private employers stepped up hiring in June and the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits last week fell by the most in two months, hopeful signs for the struggling labor market.
Employers outside government added 176,000 new workers to their payrolls last month, the ADP National Employment Report showed on Thursday, after increasing 136,000 in May.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; unemployment
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To: facedown
Anybody know ADP’s politics? Can they be bought? It’s funny this is the first time most of us have ever heard of them.
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07/05/2012 12:20:33 PM PDT
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FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare is only the beginning. It's all downhill from here.)
To: facedown; Red Badger; C210N; dartuser; Psycho_Bunny; txrefugee; traditional1; central_va; ...
There's dishonesty in the headline implication and no new claims number in the excerpt. Here's the weekly average, "seasonally adjusted" "jobless claims" number for the month--missing from the excerpt. It's for one average week of the month.
385,750
The slide continues. Welcome the remainder of the middle class, when it rains.
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07/05/2012 3:56:05 PM PDT
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familyop
("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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