{"id":399,"date":"2003-07-12T18:39:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-12T23:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/399.html"},"modified":"2003-07-12T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-12T23:39:50","slug":"meanwhile-unemployment-reaches-1983-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/meanwhile-unemployment-reaches-1983-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, unemployment reaches 1983 levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bush administration faces increasing heat this week over Niger lies, Iraqi violence, and stonewalling the independent 9\/11 commission, there&#8217;s still the White House&#8217;s failed economic policies to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/11\/business\/11JOBS.html\">New York Times reported<\/a>, &#8220;The number of Americans claiming jobless benefits late last month hit its highest point in more than 20 years, the government said today in a report underscoring the persistent weakness of the nation&#8217;s labor market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While economists were expecting the number of first-time unemployment applicants to go down, the number increased &#8212; again &#8212; according a report issued Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>For the 21st week in row, the number of jobless Americans seeking unemployment benefits stayed above 400,000, this time it was 439,000. <\/p>\n<p>That brings the new total of out-of-work Americans to 3.8 million &#8212; the highest level since February 1983.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to place a wager on whether the Bush administration will fulfill its promise of creating 1.4 million new jobs in the next year and a half? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bush administration faces increasing heat this week over Niger lies, Iraqi violence, and stonewalling the independent 9\/11 commission, there&#8217;s still the White House&#8217;s failed economic policies to deal with. As the New York Times reported, &#8220;The number of Americans claiming jobless benefits late last month hit its highest point in more than 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}