Why Should I Be Impressed When "First-Time Unemployment Claims" FALL?

[arwalden]

Okay... big deal. So the number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first time fell? Yes? And?

What does this mean for the people who are still out of work? What about the people who have stopped looking? What about the people whose benefits have expired?

Or... do those people not count?

Or... is there some other magical mathematical formula that balances the actual number of unemployed not receiving benefits, the NEWLY-reemployed, and the first-time-employed and subtracts that from the FIRST TIME unemployment claims?

It's all FUZZY to me.

-- Allen

[meegbear]

1. As someone whose benefits have expired ...

I don't count anymore since I'm not collecting form them.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. They will now wait til January when all the extensions that

would have been expire and will state unemployment is at an all time low.

Sorry I posted a thread and didn't realize this one was here. :D

[wtmusic]

3. Apparently we're running out of people to unemploy

:silly:

[utopian]

4. Precisely

[corporatewhore]

5. becuase most people have McJobs now

Bush-billions of whoppers servedTM

[Kurovski]

7. Had breakfast at the home of Ronald the clown today

saw three men over 30 working there.

[corporatewhore]

8. my neighbor who works at target

who is like an assitant manager or smething told me that laid off motorola employees are working under teenage supervisors

[dfong63]

6. well, at least it's better than if the number is rising.

[kodi]

9. da comrade, our glorious motherland is bleeding less profusely

but its because there ain't that much blood left in the corpse