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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Number of People Filing for Unemployment Benefits Increases After Sinking
Earlier in the Month
Alan Zibel and
Jonathan House
July 31, 2014 8:34 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON—The number of U.S. workers claiming unemployment aid rose last
week after sinking to a 14-year low earlier in the month.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits increased by 23,000 to a seasonally
adjusted 302,000 in the week ended July 26, the Labor Department said
Thursday.
The figures were slightly better than expected. Economists surveyed by The
Wall Street Journal, on average, had forecast 305,000 new claims.
Claims for the previous week were revised down to 279,000, the lowest level
since May 2000.
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The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility,
decreased by 3,500 to 297,250, the lowest since April 2006.
Jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, have been trending lower this year.
Hiring has also improved, with employers adding well over 200,000 jobs a
month for the past five months.
Thursday's report showed the number of workers continuing to draw
unemployment benefits increased by 31,000 to a seasonally adjusted 2.54
million in the week ended July 19. Those figures are reported with a one-
week lag.
After rising to a level of more than 600,000 in early 2009, weekly claims
have dropped steadily.
They have hovered near 300,000 since May, but haven't dropped below that
level consistently since 2006, before the economy fell into a recession that
lasted from December 2007 through June 2009.
Before the recession, the nation's unemployment rate was well below 5%. In
June, it was 6.1%.
The Federal Reserve, which has a mandate to boost employment while keeping
inflation under control, is closely watching the labor market as it rolls
back its bond-buying program and starts to debate when to raise interest
rates.
Following its policy meeting this week, the Fed said it would scale back its
purchases of mortgage and Treasury bonds to $25 billion a month. In a
statement, the central bank noted there are still "significant" unused
resources in the labor market. | w*****s
发帖数: 2896 | 2 现在很多数据都是被左逼党manipulated之后才发表的. 左逼党有绝招, 就是可以根据
需要, 造个数据, 公布一下, 情况不妙, 瞒不下去了, 要打自己的嘴脸时, 再上调或下
调一下, 称为revise.
左逼党掌权, 是可以这样做. 但凡事都有后果的, 这种事情做多了, 以后政府就没了公
信力. 这样社会效率就会大大降低, 成本大大增加, 这些左逼党是不屑一顾的. |
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