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Applications for US unemployment benefits fall to 304,000, close to a 7-year low
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/10/applications-for-us-unemployment-benefits-fall-to-304000-close-to-7-year-low/ ^ | July 10, 2014 | FOX News

Posted on 07/10/2014 6:27:24 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom

WASHINGTON – Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, driving down the level of applications to nearly the lowest in seven years.

The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment aid dropped 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 304,000. That's not far from a reading of 298,000 two months ago, which was the lowest since 2007, before the Great Recession began. [...]

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1 posted on 07/10/2014 6:27:24 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom
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To: ConservingFreedom
Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, driving down the level of applications to nearly the lowest in seven years.

An, in related news, the Titanic has stopped sinking.

2 posted on 07/10/2014 6:29:31 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Great news! 20 trillion dollars later and we’re back to square one!


3 posted on 07/10/2014 6:30:01 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Short holiday week


4 posted on 07/10/2014 6:31:46 AM PDT by Bruce Kurtz
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To: ConservingFreedom

Blah blah blah.

Bring back American jobs.

Jobs. Stop importing everything.


5 posted on 07/10/2014 6:33:08 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Bingo.

Holiday week.


6 posted on 07/10/2014 6:38:28 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Bruce Kurtz

Bingo.


7 posted on 07/10/2014 6:39:06 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Fewer and fewer people have jobs to lose.


8 posted on 07/10/2014 6:43:34 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You really are a one trick pony, aren’t you?


9 posted on 07/10/2014 6:44:12 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Most people’s benefits ran out several years ago.


10 posted on 07/10/2014 6:45:18 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: P-Marlowe

Nope.

I support American jobs.

I also post on other topics.


11 posted on 07/10/2014 6:45:26 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Yeah, it’s because they’re all collecting disability. No one’s working because democrats pay them to sit home.


12 posted on 07/10/2014 6:46:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (The Media is Obama's Scandal Condom - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: P-Marlowe

Exactly!

At this point, they should be providing the percentage of the still working population this represents to provide some context to this statistic (that will be revised upward later).


13 posted on 07/10/2014 6:47:14 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: ConservingFreedom

Unemployment benefits expired for about 1.3 million people in December 2013, and about 2 million people have had their benefits run out since then.

The senate voted to extend unemployment benefits in March, but the house did not take up the bill.


14 posted on 07/10/2014 6:48:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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15 posted on 07/10/2014 6:52:18 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I support American jobs.

What are you doing to bring back American jobs, other than bitching that other people aren't doing it?

What jobs do you want to bring back?

And how do you propose we get them back?

Most of the manufacturing jobs and agriculture jobs are being done by legal and illegal immigrants because they are willing to work for minimum wage (or less).

Perhaps you would be willing to put all your life savings at risk to create some AMERICAN jobs? What job would you create?

16 posted on 07/10/2014 6:52:24 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: P-Marlowe

I have a job.

What I am saying is we have a MASSIVE trade deficit with the Peoples Republic of China.

Massive.

We buy something along the lines of 440 billion dollars of goods (last year) from the ChiComs.

We only sell around 122 billion dollars of goods to them. (again, last year)

Every single year, we buy billions and billions of dollars more from China, then we sell to them.

Yet China manipulates their home market, to “protect” it.

We are selling out America, while China continues a massive protected home market.

That is flat-out wrong.

Bring back jobs, to America.


17 posted on 07/10/2014 6:56:32 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I have a job.

Then give it to someone else, and create an American Job.

Your posts are filled with platitudes about American Jobs, yet you offer no solutions. From what I read your solution would be for the United States to follow the example of China and manipulate the markets.

Well the average Chinese man works 16 hours a day and probably makes $10-$15 a day. If they don't work, they are sent to work camps where they will work for free.

If Americans worked like that, then we'd have plenty of American Jobs.

Is that the kind of jobs you want Americans to take? Forced jobs in a centralized economy?

Just thank God you have a job, and if you want more American Jobs, then create them. Hire some enterprising teenager to do your yard and paint your fence. Maybe someday he will become a landscaper or a contractor.

18 posted on 07/10/2014 7:04:17 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Unemployment benefits have not been extended. Eventually, people can't apply for them because they have no jobs. The labor participation rate is far more indicative of what is happening in terms of employment.


19 posted on 07/10/2014 7:08:22 AM PDT by kabar
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To: P-Marlowe

I believe out government needs to step in, and start protecting American workers.

How is a (big) question, but America cannot continue to operate the way we now do.

Both parties, are selling out our own country. China is very rapidly, about to take the global lead. If they haven’t already.

China is (rapidly) growing.

Yet we continue to blindly just send US jobs to China. We don’t even really own the factories, we are sending our jobs to. Just as minority interests. And the workers are certainly not American.

GOP stand up. Support American jobs.


20 posted on 07/10/2014 7:11:32 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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