The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits inched up last week but U.S. layoffs remain historically low despite signs of a softening labor market.U.S. filings for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 17 rose by 1,000 to 200,000, up from 199,000 the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than the 207,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting.Earlier this month, the government reported that hiring remained sluggish in December, capping a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even though layoffs and unemployment remained low.Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, the Labor Department said. The Labor Department also recently reported that businesses posted far fewer jobs in November than the previous month, a sign that employers aren’t yet ramping up hiring even as growth has picked up.Businesses and government agencies posted 7.1 million open jobs at the end of November, down from 7.4 million in October. Companies that have recently announced job cuts include UPS, General Motors, Amazon and Verizon.Recent government data has revealed a labor market in which hiring has clearly lost momentum.In an attempt to stabilize a softening labor market, the Federal Reserve last month trimmed its benchmark lending rate by a quarter-point, its third straight cutFed Chair Jerome Powell said members of the committee are increasingly concerned that the job market is even weaker than it appears. Powell suggested that recent job figures could be revised lower by as much as 60,000, which would mean employers have actually been shedding an average of about 25,000 jobs a month since the spring, when the Trump administration rolled out its sweeping import taxeshttps://www.lockhaven.com/news/business/2026/01/us-applications-for-jobless-benefits-inch-up-last-week-to-a-still-low-200000/
Your wife wishes she had another inch or fiveAs far as nationwide statistics go, "inched up" is meaningless
>>1482273Unemployment has been going up for months now. The economy is in recession. Thats a fact.
>>1482256dismiss every democrat from eligibility they openly let republicans die during the hurricane emergency aid session.everyone who voted democrat should be immediately disqualified from federal benefits.
remove eligibility for all Republicans who openly allowed democrats die during the hurricane emergency aid session.everyone who voted republican should be immediately disqualified from federal benefits.>dismiss every democrat from eligibility they openly let republicans>not "remove eligibility for all Republicans who openly allowed democrats"foreign terrorist detected
>>1482316Not by the traditional/accepted definition of "recession", it isn't.
>>1482441You need to be section 8'ed and supervised for your own safety and that of others, you do not have the tools necessary to determine good information from bad, it's astonishing you can even dress yourself.
>>1482677What does free government housing vouchers have to do with this
>>1482544A definition designed around protecting the wealthy and their interests. The metrics that matter to us normal Americans have been bad for several months now; unemployment, cost of living, debt ratio, bankruptcy rate.
>>1482790It takes 2 full quarters to qualify as a recession Damn you're unemployed, in debt, and bankrupt? Just hope the Hindus are right and reroll, anon
>>1482256>U.S. layoffs remain historically low Go and pick your farmers cotton, you lazy fat burger bastards, since you sent all the brown people back home. Thenit can be shipped over here and then return to you as cheap XXXXXX large clothing
>>1482797>The rights economic plan>just kill yourself
>>1482856Sounds like the Canadian Healthcare systemisn't single payer healthcare grand?
>>1482849No the detainees will need to earn their airfare ticket out of the country by working in the industrial prison complex. Between airfare costs and all the back taxes they owe, some of them are going to be there for years. And we know they won't stop coming back, so the labor supply will never run out even after the first wave buys out
>>1482797Job creation rate has been down since April. Unemployment is up since a year ago. Trump sucks at the economy.
