The Department of Labor is
reporting 423,000 initial claims for unemployment. This represents:
...a decrease of 9,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 432,000. The 4-week moving average was 421,000, an increase of 500 from the previous week's revised average of 420,500.
Once again, economists guessed low in advance of the numbers.
Not long ago, diarist Corwin Weber wrote:
I'm tired, people.
I'm tired of being rejected over and over again.
I'm tired of being rejected and not even actually hearing that I was rejected.
I'm tired of stress.
I'm tired of constantly being broke.
I'm tired of depression.
I'm tired of elected officials telling me I'm just lazy.
I'm tired of unhelpful 'suggestions' from well-meaning people that are beyond my means.
[...]
I'm tired of watching people who have a clear, demonstrated solution to the problems we're facing today do everything in their power to avoid using that solution.
And frankly, I'm just fucking exhausted.
I've been unemployed almost two years now and I want my goddamn life back.