{"id":15747,"date":"2011-10-13T14:50:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=15747"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:59:37","slug":"jobs-report-still-mired-in-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/jobs-report-still-mired-in-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs Report &#8211; Still Mired in Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly initial claims number is still terrible. Above 400,000 or ever above 300,000 is not going to bring us back to a period of full employment anytime soon. The fact is that while last week&#8217;s <strong>NFP<\/strong> reports was taken well, 45,000 of the workers were simply Verizon strikers returning to the roll.<\/p>\n<p>With President Obama&#8217;s recent jobs bill being defeated in the Senate yesterday, what will it take to ramp up hiring?<\/p>\n<p>How about less legislative tinkering or perhaps a review of our outsourcing trends? Or maybe<!--more--> we need to start thinking about an economy where a 7-8% unemployment rate is the rate we should be content to see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15748\" title=\"initial\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/initial-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The continuing claims will look better and better as more claimants run out of benefits. Look at this as a contra-indicator if the economy does not add jobs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/continuing-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15749\" title=\"continuing\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/continuing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong> <\/a>for the virtual tour&#8230;.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekly initial claims number is still terrible. Above 400,000 or ever above 300,000 is not going to bring us back to a period of full employment anytime soon. The fact is that while last week&#8217;s NFP reports was taken well, 45,000 of the workers were simply Verizon strikers returning to the roll. With President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-15747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}