Posted on 11/20/2014 6:16:34 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell less than expected last week, but continued to point to strengthening labor market conditions.
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Meanwhile, if people are not out of work, they have 2 to 3 PT jobs and are struggling from increasing costs and student loans.
Yet these stories are always written as though all is honkey dory.
Boy I wonder how awesome things will be when unemployment hits 0%!
jobless and not working is two different things. Attach the numbers for “disability” increases and welfare increases for a reality check.
Bunk.
Total bunk. There are 93,000,000 Americans without a job.
A new all-time record.
Yahoo is an Obama media outlet. Extremely biased.
Why should people claim unemployment when they can make more money on welfare?
Everyone has already filed.
more fake numbers!
we aren’t buying it Obola !
start counting those that have given up looking and THEN we will talk about the REAL state of the economy!
the workers are so few we need to let in millions of illegals.
I work two jobs, others work three. Surely this skews the numbers and, given the impact of Øbamacare, I’d think the number of people working two or more jobs is historically high.
What they don’t figure in, is the Veteran’s Day holiday. No claims filed. What would the numbers be if that day was included?
When unemployment hots zero nobody will be working - that’s how phoney these statistics have become. Real current rate should be calculated by using the total number of people who are able to work and divide that by the number of people able to work but are not working, Which translates into something like a 37% unemployment rate - the Great Depression highest rate was 28%.
Milwaukeestan, WI - a stronghold of Democrats for 50+ years, has a 32% unemployment rate for black males, age 18-35.
Nothin’ to do and all day to do it...
Hundreds of MILLIONS of TAXPAYER ‘stimulus’ dollars went to Milwaukee - there is building going on EVERYWHERE on the Interstate and all along it. However, the Unions will not hire the available blacks. Heck, it works that way in Madistan, WI as well.
When’s the last time (if ever) you saw a black guy on a construction crew? I never have. Ever.
What a waste of manpower. What a waste of lives.
Thanks, ‘Rats! Thanks, Unions! *SPIT*
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