[SeekAndFind]

It's fun with Thursday jobless claims numbers once again...

[virgil]

I don’t believe any of their “numbers”.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Looks like every unemployed American has either moved back in with their parents, killed themselves or signed over their soul to Mother Government.

*MISSION ACCOMPLISHED*

*SPIT*

[Little Pig]

Unrevised, and therefore worthless. When the adjusted number comes out in a week or so (to far less fanfare, naturally), it’ll be much higher, maybe even an increase.

[logi_cal869]

...this IS an election year...

(short-stroking air)

[Repeal The 17th]

“...first-time applications for jobless benefits falling to 320,000...”
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Do they publish stats for second and third time applications?

[TangledUpInBlue]

And how many people left the workforce or had their benefits expire.....

What a bunch of BS. No one believes this anymore. All you have to do is ask around. Even here in the NY area where the real estate market has fared better and so too the economy, people are STILL being laid off. I have more friends than I can count on one hand that have “retired” and become stay at home Dad’s/Substitute Teachers. (after their unemployment ran out)

Stats can be manipulated. But even without that, they can be read in a vacuum to be interpreted many different ways. You have to look at the overall picture.

[lostboy61]

Come to my area of the country and just drive up and down the streets. The middle of the week you will see a lot of work trucks and vans setting in driveways and it's not because there working only because they live there. Go down the main roads and look in the auto shops and tire shops and see only one or two bays are full. Look at how many commercial property's are setting empty. Just because mecca man from the white hut says it's so doesn't make it so. Wake up people, something bad comes this way

[Principled]

Riiiiiiiight....

It’s not that I don’t want the numbers - they just aren’t believable. What is it like 132 out of 133 weeks have been revised back up? Well, instead of listing examples of being lied to.... name a time when this regime gave truthful numbers - on anything.

No wonder the market doesn’t react well. Market knows this regime lies. Joe Wilson you’re a soothsayer....

[Iron Munro]

It's just the Obama Media warming us up for another re-run of that old "Recovery Summer" spiel.

[GOPJ]

Half of Detroit’s on disability... and the rest of the lowlife’s are following.

[SoFloFreeper]

The numbers would have been worse, but the warm weather was so pleasant, people took advantage of the great outdoors and did not bother applying for jobless claims in the stuffy, uncomfortable government buildings.

See how easy that was?

[IMR 4350]

There isn’t nearly as many jobs out there for people to loose, of course the number will go down.

[flamberge]

The statistic which has not yet been gimmicked is the "labor force participation rate". That is the percentage of working-age people (16-65) who are employed.

This rate has been consistently measured since the 20's. It is now at the lowest point ever recorded.

This does not indicate economic recovery.