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Unemployment Claims Falling Faster than in Half of Past Recessions
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The U.S. Department of Labor released the Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report showing that initial jobless claims decreased 10,000 in the latest week to 570,000 from an upwardly revised 580,000 the week prior. The 4-week moving average is now 566,250, less than 100,000 off the April peak. Since the week ended Jul. 18, the average initial claims figure has been hovering in the 560-570,000 range. So, this marks six straight weeks during which we have seen no discernible improvement in the employment picture painted by jobless claims data. It is now 20 weeks since initial jobless claims peaked and we are shedding only 92,500 fewer jobs. I found this quite worrying until I compared it to previous recession , demonstrating that the last two jobless recoveries had a similar dynamic. Even


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