{"id":187942,"date":"2011-01-20T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/its-jobless-thursday-83\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T02:08:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/20\/its-jobless-thursday-83\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial claims for unemployment benefits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/new-us-jobless-benefit-filings-fall-to-404000-2011-01-20\">fell to 404,000 last week<\/a>, better than forecast, but still about 25K more than what is needed for the start of a meaningful recovery, and the less volatile 4-week moving average dropped 4,000 to 411,750, with continuing claims dropping 26K to 3.86 million, though the total number of people getting benefits, despite the fact that the &#8220;99ers&#8221; have run out of benefits, rose by more than 400K to 9.61 million.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/jay-bookman-blog\/2011\/01\/19\/for-first-time-in-decade-u-s-adds-manufacturing-jobs\/\">manufacturing employment grew for the first time in more than a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial claims for unemployment benefits fell to 404,000 last week, better than forecast, but still about 25K more than what is needed for the start of a meaningful recovery, and the less volatile 4-week moving average dropped 4,000 to 411,750, with continuing claims dropping 26K to 3.86 million, though the total number of people getting &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-187942","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\/187942"}],"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=187942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}