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Unemployment claims up, unemployment rate down … huh?

Here’s some more conflicting data for you.

The BLS has been reporting unemployment claims pretty level for the year … but increasing lately.

Defying gravity (and logic), the unemployment rate has going down … an inverse relationship.

Hmmm.

Magic?

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This entry was posted on October 7, 2012 at 11:59 am and is filed under 2012 Campaign, BLS, Employment - Jobs, Unemployment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Unemployment claims up, unemployment rate down … huh?”

  1. mpavey0's avatar mpavey0 Says:
    October 7, 2012 at 8:46 pm | Reply

    Very interesting. Presumably this is not impossible if you believe that the number of existing unemployed people getting jobs is outpacing the number of newly unemployed people?

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