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Hamlette

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7. Keep in touch with you unemployment office, watch the numbers.

Mon Jan 2, 2017, 02:15 AM

Jan 2017

It was a better indicator for 2008 than this clap trap.

I work at my state's unemployment office. Our numbers started going up in November 2007. By December 2007 the whole office was buzzing about it. It stayed up throughout 2008 but nothing like what happened in late 2008. We couldn't put in telephone trunk lines fast enough to meet call volume. We had phone company people literally working round the clock in 2009. It was surreal.

We didn't recognize it in late 2007-early 2008 but if it happens again, I'll let you know

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Keep in touch with you unemployment office, watch the numbers. Hamlette Jan 2017 #7

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