{"id":187873,"date":"2011-02-10T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/10\/its-jobless-thursday-82\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T01:05:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/10\/its-jobless-thursday-82\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Jobless Thursday, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-02-10\/u-s-initial-jobless-claims-fell-more-than-estimated-to-383-000-last-week.html\">initial unemployment claims numbers are good<\/a>, they fell to 383,000, a 36,000 drop, with the less volatile 4-week moving average falling to 415,000 from 431,000, and continuing claims fell by 49K to 3.89 million, though extended and emergency claims rose by 84K to 4.64 million.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that this is a part of a trend, but much of this may be driven by the extreme weather that we have seen recently, which has the effect of delaying people trying to get to the unemployment offices.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular concern is the rising emergency and extended claims, because there are large numbers of people, the so-called &#8220;99-ers&#8221; who have run out of benefits completely, and are so not caught in <b>any<\/b> of these numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Jobless Thursday, and the initial unemployment claims numbers are good, they fell to 383,000, a 36,000 drop, with the less volatile 4-week moving average falling to 415,000 from 431,000, and continuing claims fell by 49K to 3.89 million, though extended and emergency claims rose by 84K to 4.64 million. I hope that this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,975],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187873"}],"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=187873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}