ACTUALLY, UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS WERE DOWN LAST WEEK.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 482,399 in the week ending Jan. 22, a decrease of 67,491 from the previous week.

I ONLY GO WITH THE ACTUAL NUMBER AS REPORTED BY THE STATES


The previous weeks were:

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 550,594 in the week ending Jan. 15, a decrease of 212,504 from the previous week.

UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 770,413 in the week ending Jan. 8, an increase of 191,686 from the previous week.


UNADJUSTED DATA

The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 577,279 in the week ending Jan. 1, an increase of 52,038 from the previous week.

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As you can clearly see, over the past four weeks the numbers have been 482K, 551K, 770K and 577K. That adds up to 2,380,000 in the past four weeks. The average is close to 600 thousand a week. THAT is frightening!!!!!