Initial Jobless Claims Crash To Pandemic Lows; There's Just One Thing...

zerohedge2021-04-15

After rising for two straight weeks, initial jobless claims crashed to pandemic lows, back below 600k for the first time since early March 2020...

Source: Bloomberg

Notably,the drop in claims was largely driven by a 75,645 drop in California... which, as Joe Brusuelas suggests, isindicative of the problems that remain in processing claims, backlogs and fraud in the states.

'Normal' Continuing Claims continue to drop as do Pandemic Emergency claims...

Source: Bloomberg

Finally, we note that thenumber of Americans on some form of employment-based welfare fell below 17 millionfor the first time since early January...

Source: Bloomberg

However, with no new stimmies on the horizon, andemployers finding it increasingly difficult to pry government-handout-heavy employees off the couch to do a day's honest work, we wonder if this is as good as it gets for the post-pandemic jobs situation.

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Comments

  • aztech91
    2021-04-16
    aztech91
    This is great
  • Ljoney
    2021-04-15
    Ljoney
    Bad data
  • Jaspal
    2021-04-15
    Jaspal
    Wow good sign of  economy recovery .
  • Maydelyn
    2021-04-15
    Maydelyn
    Good sign means the economy is recovering verywell.. 
  • JHFG
    2021-04-15
    JHFG
    Interesting
  • bluedolphin
    2021-04-15
    bluedolphin
    Wow
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