Applications for jobless aid for the week ending Jan. 31 rose by 22,000 to 231,000 from the previous week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s significantly more than the 211,000 new applications that analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.Applications for unemployment benefits are seen as representative of U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.A number of high-profile companies have announced job cuts in the past year, including UPS, Amazon and Dow just last week.Mounting layoff announcements in the past year, combined with the government’s own sluggish labor market reports, has left Americans increasingly pessimistic about the economy.Last month, the government reported that hiring remained subdued in December, capping a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers. Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, according to the Labor Department. The 2025 numbers represent the smallest annual job gains since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the job market in 2020. Outside of recessions, it’s the slimmest annual increase since 2003.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.https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-applications-jobless-benefits-jump-22000-231000-week-129880470
>>1487124>If we ignore it it'll go awayMAGA's response to all the bed economic news
>>1487155just disqualify all registered democrat voters from the pile make them automatically ineligible and problem solved. they treated republicans as subhuman for a decade time to start doing it to them.
>>1487124Don’t worry about it. Everything is just fine. Look at this funny AI video of Obama as a monkey
>>1487124Skill issue. Deny the claims.
>>1487156>they
>>1487202Distractions distractions distractions.Hard to distract people from the fact grocery prices continue to skyrocket while wages are flat and companies and doing more layoffs.
>>1487360What do you mean? Grocery prices stopped rising when Trump entered office. The 25-30% spike in prices was under Biden.
>>1487364Not really. Even Fox News admits that grocery prices continue to rise. A few items, like pork, dropped a small percentage but thats because China stopped buying all American pork products which caused a glut in supply.https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-breaks-day-one-promise-lower-costs-prices-surge-across-america-first-six-months
>>1487382Who was the last president that had deflation, falling prices?When was the last time a president actually pulled that off?
>>1487388It doesn't matter, they will literally jump through flaming circus hoops to avoid admitting how bad bidenflation wasSane people welcome sub 3% inflation after a few years of 9% inflation
>>1487364>Grocery prices stopped rising when Trump entered office.Why do you keep pushing this lie? Every person in the country can tell it's not true every time they go buy groceries.
>>1487392>Why do you keep pushing this lie? Every person in the country can tell it's not true every time they go buy groceries.Insane desperation. These delusional fools believe that by repeating a lie enough times it'll become true. Also, Steven Bannon and his crew employee "click farms" from India to push their narrative so its possible the people saying "groceries getting cheaper, saar" aren't even in the USA. They'd have no idea whats true or not and their masters give them a script to follow.
>>1487388Its the unemployment and shitty paying jobs that are bothering people the most. If wages kept up with inflation, or if housing was affordable, or if jobs weren't all part-time $13 an hour gigs we wouldn't be complaining.Oh and that fact that Trump and his family are scamming themselves multi-millions of dollars doesn't help.
>>1487408or democrats especially Californian cunts using loopholes to siphon and steal federal tax dollars.
>>1487413>steal federal tax dollarsexecution for all offendersculling the population of all but 2 or 3 red states will only improve the US
>>1487413Steal from who? Themselves? California pays out more in taxes than it receives.
>>1487414agreed or use the sanctuary cities as dumping grounds and treat everyone inside as livestock pests>>1487416stealing tax dollars for the rich, while theypays out YOUR money for the taxes.
>>1487417>sanctuary citiesthat you were programmed to insult cities that don't bootlick feds is lamentable
>>1487422you're a menace to society and deserve to be treated as a dumping ground
>>1487423>+1 social credit for your postprogramming executed
>>1487416Shhhh don't mention facts that ruin their argument
>>1487424Kek
>>1487422>He says while tossing a Walz flavored saladIt will never be legal to kidnap brown men without papers and imprison them in your rape dungeon.
>>1487478But enough about trump and his child rape base in mar o largo
>>1487493everyone who downplayed and mocked pizzagate is a pedophile that means you that means colbert that means all of you leftists.Its been proven now its real and its been proven you directly supported the real pedophiles is it fun was it fun knowing you directly caused innocent girls to end up being trafficked and raped?you leftist piece of shit I hope you get made into jerky
>>1487124Most of the people collecting unemployment are committing fraud. They're either lying about not having jobs or lying about their eligibility. The vast majority of those people lying are rich whites (likely jews) and shitskins (mostly foreigners and niggers). How do I know this? Because I know people who work for the unemployment division in my state and even live with one who works from home. There is TON of fraud going on. The fraud department is massively backlogged because of it.
>>1487493Obama built the cages
>>1487507Fairytale time!
>>1487511Why do you trannies simp so hard for Blobama and his tranny "wife"?YWNBAW
>>1487503Maybe don't use AI to generate shitty shill stories
