As opposed to last week’s 
The latest weekly data show first-time claims for state unemployment benefits jumping 10% to return to the 380,000 level. That’s an uncomfortably high number. Tomorrow is the monthly report. Expected to be down around 75k jobs.
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1 Scott // May 2, 2008 at 6:44 am
And those are the jobless that they DO count! I read that the REAL unemployment rate (under-employed, dropouts, part-time workers, etc.) is about double the “official” government figures. Stats is a funny thing …
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