Thursday, August 19, 2010

Jobless Claims report

The initial Jobless Claims reported 500,000 people filed to receive unemployment benefits for the first time. This was the highest since November 2009 and the initial estimates were at 475,000. Continuing claims is at 4.5 million people receiving benefits. This number only takes into account unemployment benefits for the first 26 weeks.

In addition the Emergency Unemployment Compensation or EUC reports that an additional 4.75 million people are receiving this for a total of 9.25 million people receiving unemployment benefits. Until more jobs are created and people go back to work I don't see the economy recovering much.

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