{"id":717404,"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.com\/index\/717404","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":4376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30D2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}