US jobless claims drop sharply as government changes counting method
Claims down to 881,000 from 1m the previous week, after labor department said it was changing its statistical model to better reflect impact of Covid
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US jobless claims drop sharply as government changes counting method - Claims down to 881,000 from 1m the previous week
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I feel like administrations have been playing the numbers games with unemployment numbers for as long as I can remember. Counting and not counting certain people, whatever makes it seem better at the moment. Rarely does anyone ever seem concerned with the actual people the numbers represent.
Came across this earlier. Apparently, the more accurate number is 1.6 million last week.
BREAKING: 1.6 million *new* unemployment claims (regular + PUA) were filed last week, up from 1.4 million the week before.
Jobless claims remain 4.5 times as high as a year ago. They have barely come down in August.
**The US has 29 million people on unemployment aid**
Jobless claims remain 4.5 times as high as a year ago. They have barely come down in August.
**The US has 29 million people on unemployment aid**
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I remember when the GOP was claiming the Obama admin was "fixing" the jobs numbers to improve his chances of re-election back in 2012. It is amazing how everything they accused Obama of doing, Trump has done and more so. And not a peep of protest from them.
Just constant projection.
Just constant projection.
Is this kind of like how the Covid numbers mysteriously improved the week after the hospital data started getting sent to the Trump administration instead of the CDC?
They did it in 2016 and 2017 too--we should have expected it given how amped up team Trump was about Obama 'faking' the unemployment rate.
Did they, though? John Hopkins numbers never relied on the CDC anyway and have always been sourced directly from states, and they've always been the source cited by media outlets for COVID-19.
According to NY Times, supposedly the number of new cases went up every week for at least a month until 7/20 (when the reporting method changed), at which time they decreased. Pardon the derail.
