It is No Surprise

Jobless claims have risen again, while job openings have declined.

The more menial the job, the more applicants there are.

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As of November, according to the Labor Department, about 5.9 million people—38 percent of those officially classified as unemployed—had been looking for work longer than six months.


In its Thursday report, the Labor Department said that 5,157,000 people filed continuing jobless benefit claims in the week ended November 28. That is 303,000 down from the preceding week’s revised figure of 5,460,000. However, the decline largely reflects the growing numbers of laid off workers who are dropping off of state jobless rolls because they have exhausted normal state benefits, which generally last 26 weeks, and are living on extended federal benefits, or because they have exhausted all benefits, state and federal.