Unemployment claims June 21, 2012, Initial claims 387000, Decrease 2000?, Moving average increases 3500, NC increases 3148, 13 states increase over 1000
“The United States economy has lost more jobs than it has added since the recovery began over a year ago.”…NY Times Sept. 20, 2010.
“Guilford (Large NC County) appears on it’s way to a third consecutive year with annual jobless rates in double digits. Economists say that likely hasn’t happened since the Great Depression.”…Greensboro News Record December 2, 2011
“the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones.”…George Orwell, “1984″
The Unemployment claims data for June 21, 2012 is just in. Initial claims are 387,000 with a decrease of 2,000 claims. The moving average increased 3,500. However, the big story is the number of states and the amount of increases in claims. NC is one of them.
From the US Labor Department June 21, 2012.
“In the week ending June 16, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 387,000, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 389,000. The 4-week moving average was 386,250, an increase of 3,500 from the previous week’s revised average of 382,750.”
STATES WITH A DECREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000
| State | Change | State Supplied Comment | |
| None |
STATES WITH AN INCREASE OF MORE THAN 1,000
| State | Change | State Supplied Comment | |
| CA | +12,987 | Layoffs in the service industry. | |
| PA | +7,036 | Layoffs in the transportation, entertainment, lodging, food services, educational service, and healthcare and social service industries. | |
| TX | +4,028 | No comment. | |
| GA | +3,686 | Layoffs in the manufacturing, healthcare and social assistance, administrative service, trade, and construction industries. | |
| NC | +3,148 | Layoffs in the nonclassifiable establishments, construction, furniture and fixture, textile, and business industries. | |
| FL | +1,933 | Layoffs in the agriculture, construction, manufacturing, trade, retail, and service industries. | |
| SC | +1,845 | Layoffs in the manufacturing industry. | |
| MI | +1,838 | Modest increase in layoff across most industries. | |
| IL | +1,835 | Layoffs in the construction, transportation and warehousing, and administrative service industries. | |
| OH | +1,596 | No comment. | |
| NY | +1,561 | Layoffs in the manufacturing, healthcare and social assistance, and retail industries. | |
| WI | +1,272 | No comment. | |
| MD | +1,030 | No comment. |
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