{"id":187200,"date":"2013-05-16T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/16\/its-jobless-thursday-69\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:57:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/05\/16\/its-jobless-thursday-69\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/us-jobless-claims-jump-to-six-week-high-2013-05-16?link=MW_latest_news\">numbers are not great<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The number of people who applied last week for new unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in a month and a half, indicating the U.S. labor market is still not healing fast enough to rapidly bring down the nation\u2019s jobless rate. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Initial jobless claims climbed by 32,000 to a seasonally adjusted 360,000 in the week ended May 11, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected claims to rise to 330,000 from a revised 328,000 in the prior week.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It should be noted that the 4-week moving average only rose by 1250, and continuing claims fell 4,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the numbers are not great: The number of people who applied last week for new unemployment benefits surged to the highest level in a month and a half, indicating the U.S. labor market is still not healing fast enough to rapidly bring down the nation\u2019s jobless rate. Initial jobless claims climbed by 32,000 to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,1089,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-recession","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}