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still_one

(92,061 posts) Thu Sep 10, 2020, 08:39 AM Sep 2020

Another 884,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobless-claims-coronavirus-unemployment-week-ended-september-5-2020-165121299.html

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Another 884,000 Americans filed new unemployment claims last week (Original Post) still_one Sep 2020 OP

Trump's economy is horrible. No V shaped recovery. He is responsible. Joe needs to hammer "jobs"! OrlandoDem2 Sep 2020 #1

I agree still_one Sep 2020 #2

These are historically bad numbers every week Johnny2X2X Sep 2020 #3

+1 (or is that +884,000?) SoonerPride Sep 2020 #4

OrlandoDem2

(2,065 posts)

1. Trump's economy is horrible. No V shaped recovery. He is responsible. Joe needs to hammer "jobs"!

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 08:41 AM

Sep 2020

Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis said the word “jobs” every 5 seconds regardless of what was asked in an interview. They got elected

Joe needs to do the same.

still_one

(92,061 posts)

2. I agree

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 08:53 AM

Sep 2020

Johnny2X2X

(18,973 posts)

3. These are historically bad numbers every week

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 09:14 AM

Sep 2020

I simply don't see how these numbers jive with the monthly numbers in the BLS report. There's no way 4 million people lost their jobs in the last month while we added 1.4 million jobs and that made the UE rate drop 2 full points, it's just not possible.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)

4. +1 (or is that +884,000?)

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 10, 2020, 09:37 AM

Sep 2020

I agree. The unemployment rate is fake, like everything else from our government these days.

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