"States should not provide numeric values to the public" -- Fed Office of Employment Insurance

[Bernardo de La Paz]

Trump Administration Asks States To Bury Unemployment Claim Figures

As coronavirus-fueled layoffs swept the country, the Labor Department asked states to refer to new claims in "generalities" to avoid spooking financial markets.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/labor-department-trump-fudges-unemployment-claims_n_5e745dc5c5b6eab7794577ee?ri18n=true

“States should not provide numeric values to the public,” Gay Gilbert, the administrator of the department’s Office of Employment Insurance, wrote in the email shared with the Times. The message noted that the figures are closely tracked by financial markets judging the strength of the economy.

{On edit:} This seems to be 'temporary' until Thursday a week from now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/world/coronavirus-update-cases.html

[uponit7771]

1. Just ..... WOW !!!

[Wounded Bear]

2. More swampy "transparency"...

[Thomas Hurt]

3. So the more general, the deeper in the shit we are...

[bronxiteforever]

4. Truth & data inform us about the situation we are in.

Blind to the virus blind to the economy.

[pecosbob]

5. All anyone needs to do is look at a live feed of the Las Vegas Strip

Crickets...mass layoffs incoming.

[WePurrsevere]

6. States need to do what states need to do for their citizens...

and to Hell with what Trump wants.

I think I read that he wants the numbers down for the report coming out next week. I'm going to take a guess that it might have something to do with the stock market because that's what he actually cared about, it sure as beck isn't us 99%ers.

I give zero flocks what he wants especially after he told states they're pretty much on their own and even smirked a bit when the MA gov said Trump kept out bidding him on needed supplies that Trump told states they had to try and get on their own.

[bluedigger]

7. An uninformed market will make smarter decisions.