tag:consumerist.com,2010:/1/tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988- 2010-01-24T13:42:49Z Comments for Shoppers bite back. Movable Type 4.32-en tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988 2009-02-05T20:02:17Z 2009-02-05T20:02:23Z 626,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. The number of people on unemployment rose to 4.8 million, the highest since records started being kept. [AP] Ben Popken http://www.consumerist.com 626,000 people filed for unemployment benefits last week. The number of people on unemployment rose to 4.8 million, the highest since records started being kept. [AP]

]]> tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10575412 Comment from StealthySwede_GitEmSteveDave on 2009-02-06 StealthySwede_GitEmSteveDave http://www.CanItKillTheGrimace.com @Gstein: Damn. Well, to quote Michael Bolton:
Ok! Ok! I must have, I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place
or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane
detail.

]]> 2009-02-07T04:40:39Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10557487 Comment from hornrimsylvia on 2009-02-06 hornrimsylvia I was wise enough to apply for unemployment when Bush was still president. Now someone give me a job. Those online telecommuting scams won't even hire me. That's how bad it is.

]]> 2009-02-06T19:04:27Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10549293 Comment from papahoth on 2009-02-05 papahoth

I thought GWB said "the tax cuts are working?" Perhaps if we cut taxes more, that will cause me to find employment?

]]> 2009-02-06T04:29:08Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10545428 Comment from Squeezer99 on 2009-02-05 Squeezer99

thats odd, because nancy pelosi said we lost 500 million.

]]> 2009-02-06T02:16:52Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10543030 Comment from perruptor on 2009-02-05 perruptor @SarcasticDwarf: Percentage unemployed is not so easy to compare, since the government keeps changing the formula they use to define it. Here is a discussion of what the unemployment was three months ago, and how the actual rate is much higher than the number you hear on the news:
[www.ritholtz.com]

]]> 2009-02-06T01:08:27Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10542266 Comment from perruptor on 2009-02-05 perruptor @Sean Tapscott: "Its less fun, less interactive, and a lot more work."

Making it not unlike working for a living?

]]> 2009-02-06T00:46:47Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10538234 Comment from gStein_*|bringing starpipe back|* on 2009-02-05 gStein_*|bringing starpipe back|* n/a @269InchDiagonal_GitEmSteveDave: i didn't know that you worked for verizon! (you meant 5% and 3.3%)

]]> 2009-02-05T22:52:14Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10537026 Comment from Trai_Dep on 2009-02-05 Trai_Dep @Sean Tapscott: Well, if you're interested in the field of study (and gods, why wouldn't you be before signing up), it isn't all work. Especially if you have a good advisor.

]]> 2009-02-05T22:14:27Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10535480 Comment from TecmoTech on 2009-02-05 TecmoTech http://www.sois.com @PenneAll'Arrabbiata_GitEmSteveDave:

Yup. Math FTW.

]]> 2009-02-05T21:29:59Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10535433 Comment from Sean Tapscott on 2009-02-05 Sean Tapscott @Thaddeus: Graduate school sucks even harder than regular school.

Its less fun, less interactive, and a lot more work.

]]> 2009-02-05T21:28:32Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10535350 Comment from Kitteridge on 2009-02-05 Kitteridge I was a little surprised to learn they didn't start keeping those records until 1967.

]]> 2009-02-05T21:26:19Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534855 Comment from wesrubix on 2009-02-05 wesrubix come onnnn Obama's New Deal!

]]> 2009-02-05T21:10:30Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534853 Comment from HIV 2 Elway on 2009-02-05 HIV 2 Elway http://www.fuckyouherm.blogspot.com/

Glad I have some marketable skills and some fat government defense contracts.

]]> 2009-02-05T21:10:27Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534718 Comment from PenneAll'Arrabbiata_GitEmSteveDave on 2009-02-05 PenneAll'Arrabbiata_GitEmSteveDave http://www.CanItKillTheGrimace.com @tc4b: Not really. If in the past 50,000 people was the top number, and the population was 1,000,000 that would b .05 percent. If the population rose to 3,000,000 people, and the number unemployed was 100,000 that would be a new record, but the percentage would be .03 percent, or lower than the first figure.

]]> 2009-02-05T21:05:42Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534529 Comment from tc4b on 2009-02-05 tc4b http:// @SarcasticDwarf: The fact that it's a record is, in itself, significant.

]]> 2009-02-05T20:58:30Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534526 Comment from Thaddeus on 2009-02-05 Thaddeus @zimzombie: Two Words: Graduate School.

]]> 2009-02-05T20:58:27Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10534408 Comment from SarcasticDwarf on 2009-02-05 SarcasticDwarf Wow, thanks for that frigging useless statistic guys. How about you give us something useful, like say the PERCENTAGE unemployed which would actually be helpful.

]]> 2009-02-05T20:54:20Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533947 Comment from cynical_bastard on 2009-02-05 cynical_bastard http:// @Blueskylaw: yet execs keep getting raises and bonuses!

Wow, just wow...

]]> 2009-02-05T20:37:41Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533810 Comment from Blueskylaw on 2009-02-05 Blueskylaw First-time claims for state unemployment insurance reached 626,000 in the week ended Jan. 31, up 35,000 from the prior week. And continuing claims, an indication of the difficulty in finding a replacement job, increased to a record 4.79 million, according to the Labor Department.

The claims data come a day before the government's broader payrolls report for January. Some analysts expect a total of 525,000 jobs to have been shed last month as the unemployment rate climbed to 7.5%.

]]> 2009-02-05T20:32:33Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533683 Comment from zimzombie on 2009-02-05 zimzombie Oh boy, I sure am glad I'm a recent college grad looking for full-time employment!

]]> 2009-02-05T20:28:24Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533385 Comment from Shadowman615 on 2009-02-05 Shadowman615 Delete the erroneous "verizon math" posts all you want, but they're still in the RSS feed! We're onto you!

]]> 2009-02-05T20:18:15Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533256 Comment from Hedgy2136 on 2009-02-05 Hedgy2136

Whew, what a relief. Just yesterday, Nancy Pelosi said 500 million were losing their jobs every month. Things are looking up!

]]> 2009-02-05T20:12:51Z tag:64.14.177.195,2009://1.5146988-comment:10533157 Comment from nevets68 on 2009-02-05 nevets68 Sigh.

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