The Wall Street Journal found out from San Fransisco research firm called Southbay Research that the positive trending suggests it has more to do with the fact that California, whose 38 million population gives it the biggest workforce in the nation, hasn’t filed its claims numbers for past two weeks. And because the state hasn't filed its numbers their labor department had to come up with a number which, according to the research firm was too low
You may remember that the same thing similar thing happened last October 11th. For a while the liberals were celebrating. The Department of Labor reported initial jobless claims plunged to 339K from 369K the prior week. But not so fast progressive piranhas, even the labor department warned that those numbers wre on the funky side. According to the WSJ:
Beginning with the next week the numbers spiked up as the chart below indicates:"However, the report may not be as positive as the sharp drop indicates. A Labor Department economist said one large state didn't report additional quarterly figures as expected, accounting for a substantial part of the decrease."
It was only after the fact that we were told the missing state was California.
One would think that a state with such an oppressive tax rate would be able to do the bare minimum of accurate reporting...but then again...but logic doesn't apply to the People's Republic of California.
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California is to the fifty-seven states in the union as Obama is to the nation.
Heard this statistic on the radio this AM. It was coupled with the news that Netflicks stock was up.
Isn't that a sign that more people are just staying home watching movies more? Possibly, in lieu of actually having a job??
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