New unemployment benefits claims fell last week to 323,000

[papau]

New claims for unemployment benefits last week fell by a seasonally adjusted 12,000 to 323,000, a three-month low and better than economists were expecting, as they had been forecasting a small rise in new applications.

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

November 24, 2004 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending Nov. 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 323,000, a decrease of 12,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 335,000. The 4-week moving average was 332,000, a decrease of 6,750 from the previous week's revised average of 338,750.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.2 percent for the week ending Nov. 13, unchanged from the prior week's unrevised rate of 2.2 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending Nov. 13 was 2,755,000, a decrease of 29,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 2,784,000. The 4-week moving average was 2,785,000, a decrease of 16,250 from the preceding week's revised average of 2,801,250.


UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 355,121 in the week ending Nov. 20, an increase of 43,295 from the previous week. There were 397,990 initial claims in the comparable week in 2003.

The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.0 percent during the week ending Nov. 13, an increase of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 2,540,031, an increase of 148,287 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 2.5 percent and the volume was 3,137,692.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20041124/bs_nm/economy_dc

Durable Goods Orders, Jobless Claims Slip
By Tim Ahmann

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Orders for long-lasting U.S.-made goods slipped 0.4 percent in October, instead of being up 0.5 percent as economists had predicted, but new claims for jobless aid shrank last week, government reports showed on Wednesday.

[KingChicken]

1. People running out of benefits or fliping hamburgers?

[rabid_nerd]

2. Getting hired to do the Christmas Shelves at Walmart

nt

[sandnsea]

3. Temp jobs

People who haven't worked long enough to earn unemployment benefits.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Christmas Season Hiring.

Check back after the first of the year to see more accurate numbers.

Caveat: This is the U3 report, a marvel of obfuscations and massaged statistic. To get a better idea on the real state of employment, see the U6 numbers.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. It's amazing how the claims fall

When the people run out of benefits. A while back, I was unemployed, drawing unemployment checks. My benefits were running out, and I couldn't get a job anywhere. I applied at grocery stores, which I haven't done in YEARS...I was overqualified for those positions. The positions that I was qualified for just weren't out there. I managed to get extended benefits, but they were only going to be for another few weeks. Lucky me, I got a temp job...worked as a temp with no insurance, no sick time, no paid holidays, nothing for over a year, then got canned because I got really sick and missed three days of work in a row. I was told that I was "no longer a cohesive member of the team". Bite me! I didn't like the "team" anyway.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Do temp jobs offer unemployment benefits?

Or are you still off the 'unemployed' rolls? If so, has this been happening to all those temp jobs out there, keeping the rolls falsely low?

[Massachusetts]

6. Ahhh

yes, I love this kinder gentler government of ours. Just more numbers to continue the spin and placate the fools:puke: :puke: :puke:

[mhr]

7. Unemployed 53 Months - Soon To Be 54 Months

Over 2,500 resumes out the door.
15+ years of professional work experience.
BSEE
MBA
Commercial Pilot
Honorably discharged Naval Officer.

Have yet to have a serious inquiry from any company.

I don't believe a word of the unemployment statistics.

[shesemsmom]

8. out of benifits

no jobs
no hope.:nuke:

[Ian David]

11. We have PLENTY of new jobs!

What are you all whining about?

We have PLENTY of new jobs.

It's just that they're all in the *military.*

In fact, since the beginning of this war, over 1,100 new soldiering jobs have been created through "attrition."

Bush also created over 3,000 job vacancies on 9/11 alone-- many of them in the lucrative Financial Services industry.

And, once the Bush Regime ferrets-out all those homosexuals, it will create nearly 65,000 new jobs in the military!

How about THAT!

And just in time, too, because our kids will be DYING to get into college, and if they make a KILLING in the military, they just might roll their wheelchair up to the podium to accept their Associates Degree at one of our best Community Colleges.

I bet we have American teens who would give their right arm (or multiple appendages) for a chance to go to college.

Does anyone else feel a draft?

Also, thanks to Bush's new vaccine policy, we will remove tens of thousands-- maybe millions-- of deadbeat seniors from the welfare rolls this year, transitioning them to permanent "underground housing."

That wouldn't have been possible under Clinton's program to insure flu vaccine manufacturers against un-used vaccines.

Paying for wasted vaccines? Oh, those Democrats!

How will we ever save Social Security with so many senior citizens SPENDING it? Do you think the Republicans would miss the grand opportunity offered by a good flu epidemic?

When will the Democrats ever learn that smaller government is best, even if that means we're the only civilized country that leaves vaccine manufacturing to the private sector.

We all know that large multi-national corporations always have our best interests at heart. Especially the pharmaceutical companies, or else they wouldn't have contributed so generously to the Republican Party.

Isn't it worth the guaranteed collateral damage of a couple million excess social security recipients to the flu virus this year, if it means we can have enough Anthrax vaccine to protect the vital lives of our politicians in the unlikely event of a biological attack?

[shesemsmom]

12. oh pardon me

I forgot. I will go sign up today. I really want that anthrax vaccine

[PROGRESSIVE1]

10. Out of benifits and Temp Hiring for Wal-Mart greeters for Christmas

There are no real jobs!

[bettyellen]

13. just got shitcanned monday morning.. worked for them 7 years and was

replaced by sombody 1/2 my age w 1/10 th experience. for probably 1/2 the salary.
i will get by, but I'll be asking for hugs in a few days when it really hits me.

[CTyankee]

14. sorry to hear that betty

I am retiring from my job of six years on Friday, the 3rd. I didn't want to get the treatment you received (but I guess at least I would have gotten unemployment insurance). However, another job was offered to me a week ago so I have a place to go, part time, and I can now collect SS at the full level. And I have Medicare, for what it is worth going forward. It all looks so ominous. I hope you can find something good in your area. Keep your chin up and do some visualizing about your ideal job. It might just materialize!

[bettyellen]

15. Thanks ... Good luck to you, too.

I was going to be looking around right after the Holidays. Cheap skates hate paying any of us for the Holidays, jeeze. And they pulled this loyalty family how dare you think of leaving thing on me just over a year ago!! Boy, that loyalty thing is a one way street- or freeway!
It's alright, I have a lot of skills, and it's fashion the people are just suched coked out back biting morons that I have had to develop some detachment over the years. They don't have much impact on my self esteem