Thursday, October 14, 2004
The Wecovery: Let's send the lucky duckies to grade school!
The economists may be "confounded," but we'te not. After all, the economists—for some insane reason—are secure in their jobs. They're not being fucked, and they know it. We are being fucked, and we know that.
But hey! No Child Left Behind is really a jobs program! So let's give those lucky duckies some schooling! As if they weren't already getting it....
In a second economic report, the Labor Department said the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose by 15,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted level of 352,000. The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly changes, rose by 4,000 to a seven-month high of 352,000.
The report on jobless claims reflects a labor market that is continuing to confound economists' expectations. The country added a lower-than-expected 96,000 jobs in September as the unemployment rate held steady at 5.4 percent
(via AP)
But hey! No Child Left Behind is really a jobs program! So let's give those lucky duckies some schooling! As if they weren't already getting it....
