{"id":528684,"date":"2010-04-15T13:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82406"},"modified":"2010-04-15T13:16:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:16:39","slug":"initial-jobless-claims-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528684","title":{"rendered":"Initial Jobless Claims Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial unemployment applications unexpectedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov\/press\/2010\/041510.asp\">increased<\/a> from 460,000 last week to 484,000 this week.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed Labor Department official <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20100415\/ts_alt_afp\/useconomyunemployment_20100415132547\">quoted<\/a> in the wire stories says:\u00a0 &#8220;Volatility is always associated with the Easter holiday&#8221; and &#8220;This is more attributable to administrative factors than to possible  layoffs. I did not see anything in the states&#8217; numbers that would  reflect economic concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That said &#8212; even if the number does not imply increased layoffs, it certainly does not indicate a willingness to hire on the part of businesses. Thus, the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/82327\/jobless-recovery-explained-in-two-simple-statistics\">jobless recovery<\/a> continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial unemployment applications unexpectedly increased from 460,000 last week to 484,000 this week. An unnamed Labor Department official quoted in the wire stories says:\u00a0 &#8220;Volatility is always associated with the Easter holiday&#8221; and &#8220;This is more attributable to administrative factors than to possible layoffs. I did not see anything in the states&#8217; numbers that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}