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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts) Thu Jan 29, 2015, 09:45 AM Jan 2015

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Breaking: Unemployment applications drop to lowest level since April 2000

BREAKING: Unemployment aid applications drop 43,000 to a seasonally adjusted 265,000, lowest level since April 2000: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/832bb71ede834992b301beaa92d32cfa/us-unemployment-benefit-applications-plunge-15-year-low

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Breaking: Unemployment applications drop to lowest level since April 2000 (Original Post) JaneyVee Jan 2015 OP

And yet... Joanie Baloney Jan 2015 #1

It's a 'recession' when your neighbor is unemployed; it's a 'depression' when KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #2

What industry keeps laying you off? JaneyVee Jan 2015 #3

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)

1. And yet...

Reply to JaneyVee (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 10:25 AM

Jan 2015

I am unemployed again for the 4th time in 3 years. sigh

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)

2. It's a 'recession' when your neighbor is unemployed; it's a 'depression' when

Reply to Joanie Baloney (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 10:28 AM

Jan 2015

you are unemployed.

Yay, capitalism!

Hang in there. Don't give up all hope.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

3. What industry keeps laying you off?

Reply to Joanie Baloney (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 10:41 AM

Jan 2015

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