Thursday, February 13, 2014

Jobless Claims In The Last Week Are Barely 1% Lower Than They Were This Week In 2013










The report is here.

At nearly 359,000 in the last week, first time claims for unemployment are running just 0.7% lower than they were this time last year.

Annualized the level represents 18.6 million claims, about two million higher than the best years under George Bush even as the workforce is much smaller now, population is much higher and the recession supposedly ended over four years ago.