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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Fell to 315,000 Last Week (lowest since 2000)
Bloomberg ^
| May 6, 2004
Posted on 05/06/2004 5:48:59 AM PDT by RWR8189
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:14:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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May 6 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans filing initial claims for jobless benefits dropped to 315,000 last week, the fewest since October 2000, a government report showed.
Initial applications fell by 25,000 in the week that ended Saturday from 340,000, the Labor Department said in Washington. The number of people continuing to collect state jobless benefits declined to 2.935 million in the week that ended April 24, the lowest since June 2001. The statistics are reported with a one- week lag to initial claims.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bushboom; busheconomy; initialclaims; jkids; jobless; joblessclaims; jobs; productivity; tdids; thebusheconomy; unemployment
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To: RWR8189; SierraWasp; Southack; BOBTHENAILER; hchutch
al Querry will drop the brain dead "Worse economy since Hoover" attack and move to more promising ground.
He was caught in Iraq holding pictures of Follywood DNC members posing as war prisoners:
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:19:07 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(John F'onda Kerry has been a Benedict Arnold and legislative terrorist since Nam!)
To: The G Man
Excellent!
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:19:22 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Poohbah
In Acts, it states that the apostles were all in one Accord... And the earlier Accords were much smaller...less roomy.
To: RWR8189; All
We're Doomed!
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:25:50 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: The G Man
ROFL!
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:26:58 AM PDT
by
Brett66
To: Brett66
"Hard to see, sad side is."
- Yoda
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:30:28 AM PDT
by
The G Man
(John Kerry? America just can't afford a 9/10 President in a 9/11 world. Vote Bush-Cheney '04.)
To: RWR8189
The economy has added an average of 115,000 jobs a month in the last six. Talking point: Over 700,000 jobs since October
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:45:29 AM PDT
by
Lunatic Fringe
(John F-ing Kerry??? NO... F-ING... WAY!!!)
To: Lunatic Fringe
OK I will say it.
Tom Daschle is deeply saddened.
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:53:15 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Only difference between the liberals and the Nazis is that the liberals love the Communists.)
To: RWR8189
The worst economic boom since Hoover
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posted on
05/06/2004 6:58:32 AM PDT
by
Dr Snide
(vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
To: RWR8189; Willie Green
Suicide watch ping
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posted on
05/06/2004 7:03:54 AM PDT
by
ClintonBeGone
(John Kerry is the Democrat's Bob Dole)
To: marblehead17
Ping on economic numbers. What say you?
To: Poohbah
Could you say that God issued the Ten Commanments by Fiat?
WOO HOO!
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posted on
05/06/2004 7:27:46 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Of course they were Kerry's medals.....they were on both sides of the fence !)
To: RWR8189
But, these are only burger flipping, janitor, car-washing jobs with no benefits. Not real $100,00 a year jobs with all benies paid by the employer for a high school dropout on drugs with three illegitimate children in tow.
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posted on
05/06/2004 8:04:04 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American Way! Toby Keith)
To: The G Man
Really good!
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posted on
05/06/2004 8:06:27 AM PDT
by
evad
("Such an enemy cannot be deterred, detained, appeased, or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed")
To: Grampa Dave
Did you know I was in Viet Nam???..
before I became a transvestite burqua wearing perpetraitor..
err..skuuze me..that's perpetrator.
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posted on
05/06/2004 8:11:16 AM PDT
by
evad
("Such an enemy cannot be deterred, detained, appeased, or negotiated with. It can only be destroyed")
To: Constitution Day
John Kerry is deeply troubled.
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posted on
05/06/2004 8:20:43 AM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
("He never talked vague, idealistic gas. When He said, 'Be perfect,' He meant it." -- C.S. Lewis)
To: tnlibertarian
Could you say that God issued the Ten Commanments by Fiat?He actually said Fiat Lux ("Let there be Light").
How do I know he said Fiat Lux?
Easy. It was before Vatican II, and EVERYTHING was in Latin (c8
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posted on
05/06/2004 8:37:30 AM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Darkdrake Lives!)
To: RetiredArmy
But, these are only burger flipping, janitor, car-washing jobsI'm really getting tired of this line... Do people really think that there is a great sudden need for wait staff and car wash attendants? These jobs are now coming open because the people who were working there have finally found the BETTER JOBS and have quit the other ones, thus leaving a large glut of vacancies. The GOOD JOBS don't have to advertise the openings, because they have a drawer full of resumes to pull from. Why waste the money?
If you were being sarcastic, my apologies...
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posted on
05/06/2004 9:06:52 AM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
To: RetiredArmy
... and also, nearly every restaurant here has a Help Wanted sign out front. When things are good, these pop up. When things are bad, they are nowhere to be seen.
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posted on
05/06/2004 9:09:21 AM PDT
by
cspackler
(There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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