Jobless Benefits Claims Rise Again to 427,000
- Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:48am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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(The Blaze/AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment rose again this week, stuck at a high level that suggests a slowing job market.
The Labor Department says 427,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last week, up 1,000 from the previous week. The figures are seasonally adjusted.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, dipped to 424,000, its third straight drop. Still, the level is higher than at the beginning of the year.
Applications have been above 400,000 for the past nine weeks. It is one of many signs that the economy has faltered from earlier this year, when hiring was picking up and many economists expected growth to accelerate. Applications typically must dip below 375,000 to signal sustainable job growth. They peaked during the recession at 659,000.
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Comments (85)
Slayer
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:34amEconomists caught ‘unexpectedly’ again?
Off with their heads!
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:32amOBAMAeconomics is toilet stuff. Keynesian theory is poo poo. Throwing money, good after good after good has never worked. That is why the central planning of communism failed. Free, open capitalism is the only way this country will get out of its funk. OBAMA being the product of communist adults does not get or understand this. All these central planners believe they have the one trick pony. The one way that hasn’t been tried yet. They were not the MASTER PLANNER in past attempts, to make Keynesian work. IT WILL NOT. THE USA IS NOT EUROPE! MOST OF US BELIEVE YOU REAP THE BENEFITS OF YOUR OWN HARD WORK. JUST LEAVE US ALONE AND WE WILL BE FINE!
Report Post »id-look-fat-in-a-burka
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:28amSurprise Surprise!!
Report Post »MikeinIdaho
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:27am1) the recovery is taking place, just not so you would notice it, ever.
Report Post »2) This is good news for Obama, less people working means more people dependent on the government (and him) for sustenance! Watch for food riots and job riots this Summer in a US city near you! then watch for suspension of the Constitution and martial law after that.
Elections, we don‘t need no stinkin’ elections!
drbage
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:44amI would agree and suggest that the reason the O got us into Libya, but not Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain is that he wants as much of the military out of the country this summer as possible. He and the majority of the people on the left do not think that should there be riots and disruption that they can count on the military to come down on their side.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:26amSure wish I could put a plus sign up there with those numbers.
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:23amHas Obama ever told the truth about anything? Good Grief, this up-coming Great Depression could have been avoided if only OBumbles wasn’t elected. Can we petition the election to be moved up?
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:23amYep, if poser obama gets another term; game over. DON’T LET IT HAPPEN!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:13amHave no fear this is just another bump in the road, and some headwinds. Yeah, right.
Report Post »Salmad
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:11amBarack Obama “unexpectedly” won the 08 election. The same way Reuters and AP claim every month the unemployment numbers.
Report Post »sevencreekssappers
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:06amEven Jon Stewart was questioning Obama’s remarks about “It’s like getting hit by a truck”. If he stays in office it is over for us.
Report Post »kmbr
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:05amSo this is what socialism looks like…who knew?? Hope you are enjoying it Obama-trons.
Report Post »sevencreekssappers
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:03amIf he gets reelected it will be too late. People that care about this country are being surrounded and attacked from every angle. God help us.
Report Post »Ziggy
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58amoops,
Report Post »He is not worried about double dip just rough road.
Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:57pm‘Course not! Why would he? They put a lowrider kit on the beast, when it went in for its new set of 24″ Sprewells!!! Takes all them little “wrinkles” outta da road!!.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58am.
Report Post »Well what else is new? Is there any other group of people more Ate Up With The Dumb Ass, than the Obama Admin.?
teddrunk
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58amCan’t be, we‘ve had over a year of Biden’s “Recovery Summer”.
Report Post »Ziggy
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:56amAdd your comments
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:55amAnyone that did not expect this needs to pull their head out of the sand. I will say this as succinctly as possible, OBAMA SUCKS!
Report Post »flsnipe
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:55amWake up America before its to late!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:54amYou’re doing a heck of a job Barry.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:53amMore OBAMA ECONOMICS!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:22pmNo these are just lies!!!
Report Post »IslandMama
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:53amThese stupid numbers make me furious. They don’t count all the people who are not applying for unemployment. There are TONS of them and they are not counted. That is the stupidest benchmark EVER.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:21ammy thoughts exactly!!
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:03amYES! let the pigs tell the truth for once instead of trying to paint a rosy view! Big freakin’ deal $8 an hour “positions” and $4+ per gallon FUEL! where does the rest come in??
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:20pmTotally agree this numbers are total lies!! The other huge lie the new “tool” we use for measuring inflation…… we don’t count food or energy in inflation numbers!!!
As Sarah so nicely put it:“WTF”!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:52amAs Bush senior would state it, “there you go again with that fuzzy math”
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:52amBut Obummer said he wasn’t concerned about this blip, so why should we? You don’t mean to imply that things are much worse than the Obamanation has proclaimed it to be, do you? Oh, the horror!!!
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:52amThe Summer of recovery, part 3, coming soon.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:59amMore like the Summer of Insanity of DC.
Each and every day I am reminded of DC, I just need to go and find my neighbours skunk farm. No the farm does not exist, I believe most will get the hint.
Texas, I hope the rains come again in the amounts you need them, and the land is soon restored by the hand of the Almighty.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:19amThank you, Snowleopard. Interesting art. We have three cats, two toms and a queen. They provide much entertainment.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:46am@TexasCommonSense:
Thank you, cats are wonderful, I have one of my own and she can be a handful when she wants to play at all hours of the night, especially when I wish to sleep. Try having a black furred cat get into the flour sometime, and then having to give her a bath.
THAT is a challenge worthy of anyone claiming to be brave.
Report Post »T-2
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:01amI’m willing to bet dollars for doughnuts that BO will make the following statement: “the Bush’s recession is deeper than we thought. all those years of cutting taxes for millionaires and billionaires, now those greedy rich people won’t give up their cash…” on second thought, i might come out ahead with the doughnut…
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:28amReminds me of the summers of “end times” which Beck has been predicting three years in a row. Being wrong never stopped him. :)
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:50amBhaub, Beck isn’t in charge of the country. Your President is. Your President has spent trillions, putting us almost $4 trillion dollars more in debt in about 2½ years. Despite, that, higher unemployment and no improvement in the economy.
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:10pmOh, I see how Glenn Beck making the same doomsday prophecies incorrectly for three years while peddling anit-doomsday products to poor saps is completely irrelevant in an article on Glenn Beck’s site (flanked by anti-doomsday product ads) which covers doomsday prophecies.
Report Post »Centralsville
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:23pmBeck is more right about what is going on than anybody else out there. The Middle East is boiling over and we are economically collapsing. Seems pretty accurate to me.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:51amMore proof to everyone that Obamaian and Keneysian economic theories do not work, seperatly or togeather. He needs to be out of office in ‘12.
Report Post »Ironeagle
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:52amOut of office in 12? How bout impeached in 11?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58am@Ironeagle:
I would LOVE seeing that happen, televised on full and live TV. Yet as long as the left controls the Senate, it is not very likely to happen…not unless there is a majorly vested interest in them using him as a judas goat to further their own agenda…THEY would do so out of political expediency if it needed to happen.
The thing I have to wonder about at times, is Mr Obama set up from the start as a ‘failed POTUS’ so that anyone coming up next – from the progressive view – will be seen as a ‘better’ option and have a chance for them to hold onto power by any means?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:59amWouldn’t a normal human being be too embarrassed to run for re-election?
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:03amCorrect! Keneysian economic theories do not work! Neither does economic redistribution. The productive class in this country ie.. the job creators are hiding because of Obamas progressive socialist policies.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:18amWhat happened to all the “shovel ready” jobs? I haven’t seen any extra construction around SW Ohio, and even if I did, who does that help, except the construction unions?
Report Post »This Socialist, unintelligent, lying fake of a president will get his comeuppance one of these days. It happened to Weiner. Karma is a bitch and when she bites you in the a$$, it hurts.
starman70
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:18am@ GONZO:
Odummer is not a normal human being. He is a meglomaniac driven by his insane desire to rule America as king of the new American dictatorship. His EGO is bieng fed and he is being urged on by the likes of Louis Ferrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Reverend Wright, Cloward and Piven, Saul Alinsky and a host of other anti American Communists. HERMAN CAIN / ALAN WEST IN 2012!
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:30amDon’t give Obama credit for having a brain. He’s just one of the cute little faces, a mask for the Marxist monster he represents.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:41amThanks for the CHANGE, Obama!
Now, how about some JOBS!!
How’s that “LASER-LIKE FOCUS ON JOBS” coming along???
Report Post »poorrichardsnews
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:49amWe reached Clark Griswold for his complete analysis on this “unexpected” economic news: http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/6352800180/jobless-claims-unexpectedly-rise-again-clark
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:04amHey did anyone else notice they forgot the word UNEXPECTED?
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:19amObama has killed jobs! Spent more trillions to help his friends period!
Report Post »Hey trolls what good has Obama done? I want a list!!
JRook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:29amYep you keep focusing on Obama, while the Republicans keep signing one way trade deals under the guise of free trade and the titans of capitalism continue to ship jobs overseas. The current economic issues facing the US began with the Reagan’s policies, continued by Bush Sr. and other than a boom under Clinton, where continued under Bush Jr. which led us to here. Real wages have falling in the US since Regan, again other than an upturn under Clinton. The problems we face today go back to the ’80s and are deep seated.
Report Post »discardofevil
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:43amWake up! Big gov’t. Is not the answer! Look at how well the mail dept. Is doing! Look at education! How about the cars for junk program? Obamacare will not create jobs? There will be more people unemployed when that plan is in effect! Thanks Obama! You are really looking out for Americans!
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:18amMore “change that you can believe in” http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »enduro
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:53amThat is why his moron advisors are all college professors who never ran a real business. Book smart with no common sense. Obama and his administration does not have a clue. America is in for a rough year and a half. Jimmy carter flashback……
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 3:39pmMore dis-information from JROOK
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 5:44pmMass unemployment helped Hitler to power .
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