Posted on 10/08/2026 1:31:56 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell to 197,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
This was 2,000 lower than the the previous week’s revised estimate and 3,000 below the consensus forecast.
New claims for unemployment benefits are a proxy for layoffs. These have been near the lowest levels in 57 years for the past several week. The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility, fell to 198,000. This average was hit twice in 2022. Prior to that, average claims have not been that low since 1969.
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No.....GAS PRICES!!!!!! AFFORDABILITY!!!!!
My aunt watches nothing but CNN, she had NO idea that the FBI stopped the attack at the Mall of America, they NEVER mentioned it..this is what the media does, everything that is positive to Trump NOT A PEEP, so people dont know
Liar!!! Economy bad!!!
For the same reason, I check NPR.org every day.
NEVER a story complimentary to PDJT nor critical of rats.
Two Americas indeed.
And in the NE states the GOP party is dead so absolutely zero messaging makes it to the low info voter.
lol you really believe it?
With Biden it was the opposite, NOTHING ever negative about him was ever mentioned..but with Trump, NOTHING positive is ever mentioned
Consensus??
C'mon, Man!
Left wing creepozoid "consensus" = It's got to get worse because.... because.....
BECAUSE!!
I’ve learned over the years that things are always more “affordable” when you have a job.
And this is why my startpage is MSN in the morning
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4398479/posts
Inveterate, demonstrably, provable, liars
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