Posted on 09/30/2021 11:01:54 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
The number of U.S. workers who filed for unemployment rose above expectations last week, hitting the highest level in over a month and casting doubt on the strength of the labor market recovery.
First-time filings for unemployment insurance—a proxy for layoffs—came in at 362,000 for the week ending on Sept. 25, an increase of 11,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department said in a statement (pdf). That’s the highest number of weekly claims since the week of Aug. 21, when they reached 354,000. The consensus forecast cited by FXStreet was for 335,000 claims.
“Negative surprise alert: New jobless claims have risen for a third straight week,” Bankrate Senior Economic Analyst Mark Hamrick told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement.
Initial jobless filings have, for the most part, fallen steadily since surging to a record high of 6.2 million in April 2020, though they remain well below the pre-pandemic weekly average of around 220,000.
“The latest increase confounded hopes for improvement. It appears to have been spurred, at least in part, by rising claims in the states of California and Michigan,” Hamrick said.
The largest increases in advance initial claims, which are not seasonally adjusted, were in California (+86,792), Texas (+20,206), and Michigan (+18,727), according to the report.
The expiration of federal pandemic aid programs was also reflected in the numbers, which showed a total of five million Americans receiving some form of jobless assistance in the week ending Sept. 11, marking a weekly decline of over 6.2 million.
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said at a European Central Bank event that resolving “tension” between high inflation and still-elevated unemployment is the most urgent issue facing central bank officials right now.
“This is not the situation that we have faced for a very long time and it is one in which there is a tension between our two objectives. … Inflation is high and well above target and yet there appears to be slack in the labor market,” Powell said at a European Central Bank forum, with his remarks appearing to point to a 1970s-style stagflationary dynamic.
Surging prices have been a headline theme amid the economic recovery, rising faster than wages and eroding the purchasing power of Americans.
Stephen Roach, former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman, on Wednesday became the latest high-profile economist to sound the alarm on the risk of a 1970s-style stagflation—where economic growth falls but inflation stays stubbornly high.
Roach told CNBC in a Sept. 29 interview that the energy price spike is inflicting major damage to struggling supply chains and that he believes the United States is “one supply chain glitch” away from a 70s-era bout of stagflation.
Economist Nouriel Roubini, known for his gloomy-yet-accurate forecast of the 2008 financial crash—a prediction he made at a time of peak market exuberance—warned in a recent op-ed that the global supply chain crisis combined with high debt ratios and ultra-loose monetary and fiscal policies threaten to turn the “mild stagflation” of recent months into a full-blown stagflationary crisis.
While Fed officials have expressed concern about price pressures, they predict that the high rate of inflation is a transitory phenomenon.
New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams said Monday that consumer expectations for what the rate of inflation will be several years down the road remain “well-anchored” around the Fed’s 2 percent objective, though he said there are upside risks and a “great deal of uncertainty” around the inflationary outlook.
Give it a few weeks.
People being fired by the hundreds of thousands across the
nation should hit those unemployment numbers pretty hard.
If nothing else, the numbers of people actively working will
fall.
Somebody supported these stupid Democrat sons of bitches.
Probably the same idiots who come here telling us the Republicans are in charge.
I can’t hire enough people to service all of my customers.
Can you even collect unemployment if your employer fires you for not getting the vaccine?
“I can’t hire enough people to service all of my customers.”
If you don’t mind me asking, what is your business?
That crossed my mind also. That’s why I mentioned the number
of people actively working.
Either that number or the unemployment figure should show
noticeable change.
Having not sufficiently damaged the dollar by flooding the economy with fiat money, Clueless Joe will now sponsor the firing of hundreds of thousands of skilled workers with his oppressive vaccination order. Believing the public has a minus IQ, the ministry of truth will then blame it on DJT. Clueless Joe is the worst thing that ever happened to America.
Also, how do they figure the “discouraged worker” numbers these days? That would be people applying for jobs, failing for weeks and weeks and then being taken out of “unemployment” figures. Do they still do that? So many places to get a job if they want.
Maybe they figure anti-jab people deserve it as quasi-criminals who defied the Fauci and Biden mandates./S
Unexpected!
I’m sure unemployment will be in the teens, at least!! But that’s okay, Joe is bringing in foreigners who are not covid tested to take over.
Isn’t that the truth.
4th - 8th grade education, and in some cases even less.
Are stevadores required to get the jab? Heard scores of ships are waiting to dock and get unloaded on both coasts.
I had the afternoon off one day and drove down a street when school busses were expected to drop kids off after school at 3:45pm. I think at the bottom of most driveways there were one or two parents in sweats or otherwise not working from another location at 3:45pm. Not all of them were working from home, people just aren’t working anymore.
“Can you even collect unemployment if your employer fires you for not getting the vaccine?”
In many states, No. By not getting the vaccine you are violating company policy. Violating company policy is Misconduct and prevents you from getting unemployment.
I’m in NJ and was fired for not getting the vaccine. NJ has two levels of Misconduct.
Simple Misconduct is violating a company policy and can delay your claim by up to 5 weeks.
Gross Misconduct requires a violation of NJ law, considered a Crime. All crimes in NJ are felonies. This will make you ineligible for unemployment for an indefinite or permanent period of time.
I have been out for a few weeks and will file my claim either tomorrow or late next week. There are other factors that determine when I will file and what may be in my best interest. I’ll report back if I am denied.
Its not just Joe.... its the whole administration and they know exactly what they are doing.
I don’t know if they are required or not, but I’m pretty sure
there is a shortage of workers.
There’s a shortage of truckers also.
FedEx reportedly has 30,000 open jobs right now.
How many are CHOOSING to remain unemployed because they are being paid to NOT work?
My question is: Exactly how horrible of a worker do you have to be to get fired and then file a new unemployment claim, in this job market?
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