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
>>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.
>>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.
>>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?
>>1482797Job creation rate has been down since April. Unemployment is up since a year ago. Trump sucks at the economy.
>>1482889Naturally
>>1482441Hey esl faggot. Kill yourself.
>>1482677you're going to subsidize my housing?
>>1483370Basically this. Always holding the economy together while the wealthy shops for new mega yachts
>>1482679It doesn't, they throw out crazy points like this when they can't make good faith arguments. Thats because the economy is in fact in a bad place right now and its getting worse.
>>1483594Yup but Reagan closed them all down. No wonder, they'd planned on using the nut jobs to further their businessmens-plot.
>>1483670Damn California liberals shutting down mental asylums and ending no fault divorce.Why doesn't a California politician reverse Governor Reagan's policies? Why did Reagan changing the rules in the 1980s 40 years ago mean we have to keep those rules indefinitely into the future?
>>1482544>implying it's accepted
>>1483674Jealous you can't slobber on his knob like Nancy?Its ok, you couldn't have competed with her, she could unhook her jaw. Once saw her slide a bowling pin down her throat.
>>1483774Nancy Reagan was famous for her BJ's. Look it up. Its been well known for decades.
>>1482849Layoffs are climbing and unemployment is higher than a year ago
>>1483807For the same reason Donald Trump is in his 70s and Joe Biden is in his 80sWho do you think rules this country? It's not people born in the 21st century.
>>1483777>Nonpolitician last relevant in 1989Current events 2026
>>1483777The main thing people remember her for is being a crazy bitch that believed in a bunch of stupid shitAfter Reagan was shot, she hired a psychic medium to somehow protect him, then ended up consulting this person before every major decision Reagan made. They were paying her like 2.5M a year
>>1483674The hurdle for involuntarily committing someone to an asylum is now extremely high, you basically have to be an active and constant danger to be kept in a facility without your consent. But obviously, most crazy people don't think they're crazy/ don't want to put up with the restrictions of an institution, so they end up on the streets with little support.>>1483686Because no one really has found a good solution to what the courts rightly pointed out, that indefinitely confining otherwise relatively law abiding people (who just happened to be crazy) was super fucked up and regularly abused. Or should I say 'funded' rather than 'found': We totally could set them up with housing and regular house checks to help them stay off the street, but that's too 'nice' so we pay more to bounce them between the street/hospitals/institutions/prison.
>>1484062Like scrambled eggs.
>>1484147Is that the one that told her the Star Wars Defense system was crucial and had her convince the government to spend billions on it?
>>1484453>But obviously, most crazy people don't think they're crazy/ don't want to put up with the restrictions of an institution, so they end up on the streets with little support.No, that happens because the government doesn't want to spend money on them, they didn't close the asylums because too many people were being helped, they closed them because too many taxpayers were complaining about their money being wasted on treatment and though most of the inmates were scamming the system by pretending to be crazy.
>>1483732Not really.
