{"id":188044,"date":"2010-12-23T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/23\/its-jobless-thursday-85\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T23:50:00","slug":"its-jobless-thursday-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/23\/its-jobless-thursday-85\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Jobless Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-12-23\/jobless-claims-in-u-s-decreased-3-000-last-week-to-420-000.html\">420,000 initial claims last week<\/a>, a small drop, but the less volatile 4-week moving average rose for the first time in 6 weeks, from 423,500 to 426,000, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6BM1US20101223\">both continuing and extended claims fell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Initial claims, and unemployment, is too damn high, but it continues to trend a bit better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had 420,000 initial claims last week, a small drop, but the less volatile 4-week moving average rose for the first time in 6 weeks, from 423,500 to 426,000, though both continuing and extended claims fell. Initial claims, and unemployment, is too damn high, but it continues to trend a bit better.<\/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-188044","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\/188044"}],"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=188044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}