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Omaha Steve

(99,061 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:00 PM Jun 2014

Fewer Americans applying for jobless aid

Source: AP-EXCITE

By JOSH BOAK

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, as the number of people collecting jobless aid fell to its lowest level in more than six years.

The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 312,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, declined to 311,750.

There are 2.56 million people receiving benefits. That's the lowest total since October 2007, about two months before the recession began.

Jennifer Lee, a senior economist at BMO Capital Markets, said the report in a "blinding glimpse of the obvious "_is clearly "good news."

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Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140619/us-unemployment-benefits-5327699fd8.html





In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, job seekers attend a job fair held by Sheetz to staff their under-construction distribution center, in Burlington, N.C. The Labor Department reports the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/The Times-News, Sam Roberts)
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Fewer Americans applying for jobless aid (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP
Meanwhile the long-term unemployed continue to be screwed by a teabagger House. nt onehandle Jun 2014 #1
That is the dark secret they don't talk about lostincalifornia Jun 2014 #2
several million of us whose benefits ran out beachbum bob Jun 2014 #3
ugh Phlem Jun 2014 #4
Just more worthless propaganda pushed on the people by the oligarchy . geretogo Jun 2014 #5
Yep. Business after business going ballyhoo Jun 2014 #6
The folks in Raleigh don't help either. mwooldri Jun 2014 #7
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
3. several million of us whose benefits ran out
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 12:26 PM
Jun 2014

and most are no longer counted as being unemployed.....just saying the numbers don't represent reality

 

ballyhoo

(2,060 posts)
6. Yep. Business after business going
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:41 PM
Jun 2014

away around me, simply closing the doors. They probably weren't paying close enough attention to government baloney.

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
7. The folks in Raleigh don't help either.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 10:00 PM
Jun 2014

When the unemployment insurance benefits were cut back savagely here in NC, beyond 21 weeks it's not worth it.

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