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After jumping back up to nearly 500, 000 in late April, weekly jobless claim figures have been trending back down in recent weeks.

Now, it's bad enough to be jobless for a few weeks; it's much worse being unemployed for months or years.

But despite his efforts, David is still jobless and has had to ask his father for a loan to prevent him losing his home in Bristol.

He said the president still thinks the jobless rate will rise above 10 percent this year before it improves.

The Bank of Japan forecast two years of deflation and Japan's jobless rate jumped to a four-year high of 4. 8 percent in March.

Youngsters who have been jobless for a year or more tend to do worse in the labour market for the rest of their lives.

Investors will look for clues on the state of the labor market when jobless claims data comes out on Thursday.

The proportion of jobless Americans has risen steadily since the United States sank into a recession more than a year ago.

Official data already shows that the country's educated jobless, referred to as the "ant tribe, " appear to be decreasing.

A few brave officials are beginning to sound warnings that the jobless rate is likely to "stay high" .

But it was distressing nonetheless; another bit of evidence pointing towards a jobless recovery.

Much like the U. S. , China is aiming to address a problematic demographic that has recently emerged: a generation of jobless graduates.

It could take months or even years of above-trend economic growth to get the jobless rate back to its longer-run trend.

The head of a think-tank talks of 600, 000 young, educated, Kashmiri adults who are now jobless, waiting for some sort of guidance.

The report found that poor work attitudes among the long-term jobless were the major barrier to tackling unemployment.

It's not a jobless recovery, but it sure is below average job growth in this sort of environment.

Some indirect costs of unemployment, though, seem to be amplified when the jobless are young.

This was despite the fact that other parts of the country were struggling economically and had above-average jobless rates.

As the output slump sends Germany's jobless rate towards double-digits, it is hard to see consumers going on a spending spree.

Rising commodity prices are not the only worry. The labour market is weak, with continuing jobless claims at a cyclical high.

Mr. Preston's marriage broke up and he moved back in with his parents, an increasingly common pattern for jobless young men.

Granted, some Fed staffers have said that they would hike rates in the face of high jobless rates if the wider economy required such a move.

"I used to fly in a local flying club where the pilots would be languishing jobless, " Mr Mittal says.

"We see fairly weak real final demand, which we think is going to lead to a jobless recovery for a prolonged period time, " Volpert said.

Wednesday's private-sector jobs data and Thursday's jobless claims could support those willing to step out on a limb.

Initial claims for jobless insurance have been a good leading indicator for the unemployment rate in the past.

This metric has done a great job of predicting the path of initial jobless claims in recent years, with a lead time of about three months.

Mr. Perna also noted that extended jobless benefits and medical-insurance subsidies would be expiring in a few months.

Thursday's data on jobless claims and chain-store sales did not elevate either point of view on the economy.

US data yesterday were mixed, with existing home sales falling less than had been expected but initial jobless claims higher than forecast .

In Zhuzhou, the nearest city of any consequence, government officials are not very concerned about a surge in jobless farmers.

The euro-wide jobless rate is up by less than a third, compared with a doubling across the Atlantic.

The jobless rate, which stood at a low 4. 9 percent a year ago, has jumped a full percentage point over just the last three months.

Thursday, U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the nation's jobless rate will be "unacceptably high" for a long time.

The young jobless often get a particular bounce in recoveries: first out, they are often also first back in.

Another innovation since the end of the dictatorship is unemployment benefits: jobless Iraqis now get some money from the state.

Firms think twice about firing, and governments are keener to provide in-work subsidies if it means avoiding payouts to the newly jobless.

That would push jobless rates into double digits in much of the rich world and leave many countries perilously close to deflation.

Globally, women are more likely to be jobless, bearing the worst setbacks of the economic crisis.

U. S. stocks ended little changed as the manufacturing report took away some of the optimism generated by the weekly jobless claims data.

Jobless claims had been on an improving trend and the reversal suggests that momentum in the labour market may have stalled.

In Spain the building bust has pushed the jobless rate up by two-thirds in a year, to 14. 8% in January.

The extension of jobless benefits is likely to worsen that trend for at least several months.

The long bear market in shares and prospects for a "jobless recovery" add further to these woes.

This dismal rate of job creation raises the distinct possibility that America's recovery from the latest recession may also be jobless.

Millions of jobless migrants may well remain in cities, if not protesting then at least pushing up crime rates.

Struggling small businesses do not bode well for a swift fall in the jobless rate either .

A signal goal of China's stimulus program is to ensure that the idle jobless do not become an engine of social unrest.

Is it surprising that the country thinks fiscal policy is out of control, even to the point of looking warily at extended jobless benefits?

The White House must placate investors nervous about deficit spending with the political imperative of getting the jobless rate down.

The figures surprised many economists who were expecting a slightly lower jobless rate, and a bigger gain in the number of jobs.

New data added to the worries about the U. S. economy with an unexpected surge in initial claims for jobless benefits.

He argued that it was the government's duty to relieve the plight of the jobless by increasing aggregate demand for goods and services.

The jobless rate is likely to remain elevated as an improving labor market lures discouraged job seekers back into the labor force.

Part of Mr. Obama's program is a plan to let jobless people return to college without losing their unemployment benefits.

We are going to see improvement in jobs even though we saw a jump in jobless claims earlier today.

when a first wave of jobless run out of unemployment pay and start receiving less generous welfare handouts.

With jobless numbers hovering at 9. 6 percent people who have jobs seem to be reluctant to take time off.

Political analysts say bad economic news is to blame, especially the recent tick up in the jobless rate to 9. 1%.

And women have been particularly prominent in the social sector, devising new programs for the mostly male ranks of the jobless or homeless.

Unexpected decline in initial jobless claims in the US, together with better-than-expected confidence data, sustained the market.

to major in research institute: at present economic downturn, many hv become jobless people, but i believe i hv the skills & fear not. . .

Applications for jobless benefits fell in November to the lowest in more than two years, the Labor Department said yesterday.

Despite the modest improvements in jobless claims and housing data, they remained at levels consistent with a muted economic recovery.

Stone advocated extending jobless benefits again and continuing to help out the states.

Jobless claims showed some modest deterioration on a survey week-to-survey week basis, so we look for a sluggish rise in employment.

Yet it would be unwise for policymakers to hope that stronger demand will mop up all the jobless.

Too many citizens are still out of work. Unemployment remains at a 26-year high and pundits warn darkly of a "jobless recovery" .

Jobless young men have adopted one of two strategies in contemporary Uttar Pradesh.

As the jobless ranks swell around the world in coming months, the backlash against globalisation will grow.

Although the jobless rate across the bloc rose only slightly, there were significant differences in individual countries.

Extra money for the jobless is an effective stimulus measure since cash-starved households are likely to spend it.

Data on Thursday showed fewer Americans filed new claims for jobless benefits last week, a sign the U. S. economy's growth is steady.

US household net worth has begun to fall again, while jobless claims have been rising for several weeks.

"The jobless rate is going to continue to rise, " said Bernard Baumohl, managing director of the Economic Outlook Group.

But fresh thinking about ways to help the jobless get the skills they need might stop people expecting miracles from central banks.

Unlike the United States, Japan's jobless rate is only 5. 3 percent, historically high but just over half its American counterpart.

U. S. factory orders tumbled in August and the number of workers seeking jobless benefits rose in the latest week to a seven-year high.

"Many former fighters are jobless and linger around, " says Mr Flomoku. "Money and arms are a strong pull. "

Weekly jobless claims appear to have peaked, a sign the recession might end soon and that job cuts are easing.

Those were depressing days, partly due to the funeral events, and partly due to his jobless state.

Meanwhile, initial US jobless claims fell last week, although the total was higher than expected.

Such payments provide crucial support to the long-term jobless and help to prop up aggregate demand.

The president also seems fond of state-level programmes like "Georgia Works" , which pay benefits to jobless workers engaged in training.

Meanwhile, the number of people applying for jobless benefits has been stuck at elevated levels above 400, 000 a week since early April.

Politicians may lean on the board to hire their idiot nephews, chase visions of national greatness or mop up the jobless masses.

"The rate of jobless claims is decreasing although the absolute number is increasing, " he explained.

It certainly will not give work to the rest of the Delta's jobless masses, who could yet become fighters.

Ms True, jobless, with her reputation destroyed, now cultivates her Greek garden.

Official figures show China still needs to create at least 12 million new jobs to absorb the jobless army even if the country's GDP hits 8%.

Given employment's natural churn, there are always hundreds of thousands of jobless claims every week, even when payrolls are expanding.

In traditional lands, where men expect to be breadwinners, many suffer the trauma of being jobless or doing hard, ill-paid work.

So the combination of millions of low-status jobless migrant labourers and unemployed graduates could form a highly combustible mix.

The healthy second-quarter growth rate recorded in the euro area failed to affect the number of jobless.

House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, in a written statement, also applauded the lower jobless numbers.

"We are likely to see more jobless recoveries, " he says.

Opposition Republicans say the jobless numbers show that the Obama administration's economic program is not working.

The ranks of the jobless have been growing, while big financial firms that got taxpayer bailout money have been thriving.

In South Korea, it is common to see jobless people in suits and ties wandering around public parks and railway stations.

President Obama won an extension of jobless benefits and a cut in payroll taxes that could boost the economy.

The measure also extends jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and imposes a 2 percent cut in payroll taxes.

My teenage brother and I are both addicted to weed and jobless, and I suffer from a recurring depression.

In the early 1980s the jobless rate rose from 5. 5% of the labour force before recession started to 11. 9% three years after it had ended.

"Some jobless men come here in hope of a financial breakthrough, " said Hong Seong-in, the owner of a computer parlor.

Retail sales have been stronger, manufacturing has been on a slight uptick, and claims for initial jobless benefits dropped last week.

Despite projections of 4. 5% growth in the global economy, the IMF says it's been a jobless recovery.

Unemployment is a lagging indicator, so even after the economy begins to grow again, the jobless tally is likely to rise for some time.

That has led to a series of "jobless" recoveries after recessions in the early 1990s and at the start of this decade.

If he is lucky, the economy may have turned decisively in time for re-election, though the jobless rate will remain critical to the outcome.

The Great Recession has produced an unusually large number of long-term jobless.

DI is not supposed to be a safety net for the jobless.

Weekly initial jobless claims data will get more attention than usual after Thursday's nonfarm payrolls fell much more than expected.

Yakka will close its door late next month, ending 19 years of corporate clothing manufacturing and leaving 32 staff jobless.

It is not enough to give health care to the sick, or jobs to the jobless, or education to our children.

Investors are reacting to disappointing reports on jobless claims and the U. S. trade deficit.

Spain, whose economy is barely growing and where the jobless rate is 20%, would love to have America's problems.

To the Sun employees who find themselves jobless, good luck.

In the US data includes weekly jobless claims while in Europe attention will be on manufacturing and service sector confidence measures.

The U. S. Department of Labor on Friday said the May jobless rate was 8. 9 percent, the highest level since 1983.

Hence the spirit of Santiago-the hero of "The Old Man and the Sea" is a must to those graduates who stay jobless.

While the jobless count grew by seven million in the United States, Germany experienced only a slight increase.

Layoffs have slowed in recent months, but hiring has yet to pick up, meaning that jobless people face a more frustrating search.

While the weekly jobless claims did offer some hope, employment remains one of the biggest problems of the struggling economy.

In Germany, where the jobless rate is lower than in 2008, people tend to think the crisis is about lazy Greeks and Italians.

As the economy tumbles and unemployment rates soar, the jobless are using creativity to make themselves stand out.

With higher tax burdens and more generous jobless benefits, European countries get a bigger fiscal boost without any change in policy.

The easiest explanation is America's slow, nearly jobless climb out of recession.

Meanwhile, U. S. economic data have shown signs of softening, with weakness in leading indicators, including elevated weekly jobless claims.

But when the jobless figures are adjusted to an internationally comparable definition, the rate in 2005 was less than 4%.

Welfare reform is not about "stereotyping" the jobless, he waffled, but "transforming their lives" .

With a jobless rate of 10. 2% and oodles of idle capacity, America still faces a bigger threat from deflation than from inflation.

One in five young children in Britain is being raised in a home that relies on jobless benefits, an official count revealed.

Mr Peera says that as jobless figures have soared into double digits, more people are bringing their jewellery directly to his shop.

There's an interesting general theory for why we started seeing jobless recoveries in the last two recessions in the early '90s and '00s.

The third is the Syntagma protesters, who speak for the squeezed middle classes of the private sector as well as Greece's jobless youth.

Because changes in unemployment lag behind those in output, jobless rates would rise further even if economies stopped contracting today.

President Obama has reached a deal with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts, in exchange for extending jobless benefits.

It might not be so bad if the jobless could expect to find new employment fairly soon.

For instance, the U. S. government issues a broader jobless rate that shows much higher levels than the one more commonly quoted.

Picking up a gun and risking roadside bombs in Afghanistan is one answer to the problem faced by the 4m Spaniards who are jobless.

As a jobless wife, I spent my nights watching television; as a teacher, I spend them on reading and studying lessons.

The bottom line is that the current jobless recovery suggests the US has to undertake deep structural reforms to improve its supply side.

His proposals include an extension of jobless benefits for workers who have been unemployed for extended periods.

As recessions worsen, losses in tax revenue and higher jobless spending will offset some projected improvements to budget deficits.

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie says many Americans blame Mr. Obama for the high jobless rate.

The U. S. jobless rate is 9. 4 percent, and is expected to remain higher than usual for some time.

That's a slow-growth scenario that could make the "jobless recovery" of the last recession look benign.

The jobless rate is now the highest since the end of 1996, six months before Labour won power.

In this so-called jobless recovery, you might be wondering who in the world is hiring.

And Henry- wifeless, childless, jobless-never had to tussle with such details as variable-rate mortgages.

As has occurred before, the number of jobless could carry on rising even in the early stages of recovery.

Popular discontent could become even more widespread as the global jobless crisis deepens this year.

More jobless will probably mean less shopping and a slower recovery.

Far less attention has been paid to the flip side of the jobless recovery: the remarkable improvement in American productivity.

The agriculture ministry suggested sending the jobless to the hinterland to work on farms and fisheries.

Even 18 months into the crisis, the country is close to full-employment with a jobless rate of just 2. 7 percent.

And from the start of next year, any young person who has been jobless for a year or more will be guaranteed a job or training.

Social safety nets should be reinforced to avoid jobless people falling into poverty, the OECD said.

He strongly holds that the government should have more work to do, concerning about the poor, jobless and homeless .

In Michigan, which led the nation in jobless workers, newspapers offered idled auto workers free "job wanted" ads in the classified section.

Striking workers, however, are not eligible for jobless benefits and their applications will most likely be rejected.

We've had jobless recoveries before, but this recovery has been totally devoid of income growth, and that's very disturbing.

France is readying a bill to cut the workweek and introduce flexi-time working, in a move to pare the jobless rate.

Cut the payroll tax, extend jobless benefits and subsidise new jobs; then curb entitlement spending by raising the retirement age.

Should Congress approve, such measures could light the path back to work for many jobless Americans.

Officially, nearly one in four South Africans is now jobless; the real number is probably nearer one in three. Inflation is running at 8%.

payroll employment growth has accelerated from early summer, and initial claims for jobless benefits are dropping.

CORRESPONDENT The Bush administration inherited a weakening economy, but acknowledged it is disappointed in the jobless recovery.

Many young Spaniards live at home with parents who are themselves jobless and who may well be struggling to pay debts of their own.

Mr. Yuan had arrived several months earlier for an internship but was still jobless.

Weekly jobless claims will come out a day early on Wednesday because of Thursday's Christmas holiday.

We see cowboys and farmers and people left jobless by the Great Depression.

The official jobless rate conceals a surge in long-term unemployment to a postwar record.

The jobless benefits program resumed in August after Democrats gained enough votes to pass an extension through November.

Both are drawing abuse from a jobless man selling a community newspaper who resents politicians cluttering his patch.

One of the participants in my program was left jobless when the entire division where he worked was eliminated.

The ADP report now uses information from the previous month's BLS report as well as initial jobless claims.

The week's economic calendar includes reports on the beleaguered housing market along with weekly initial jobless benefits claims.

Wall Street is set for a turbulent day as US jobless figures were higher than expected.

The latest initial jobless claims in the US now show a clear downward trend, a good indicator of the end of recessions in the past.

It eschews jobless teenagers, its rivals' rank and file, in favour of graduates, infiltration and intelligence.

The jobless can only hope such predictions come true.

There are also concerns that the US could suffer a "jobless recovery" , as its unemployment rate remains close to 10%.

And though the black middle class has grown immensely, many blacks are still stuck in crime-scorched, nearly jobless ghettos.

Some economists have far gloomier outlooks, predicting the jobless rate will reach 11 percent, as the country slides towards recession.

Governments have often hidden the true extent of unemployment by putting jobless people on incapacity benefit.

Massive stimulus spending has barely dented the jobless numbers and has pushed the deficit to vertiginous heights.

Generally speaking the target of the macroscopic economic policy is to control below 3% the inflation rate and jobless rate at 5%.

A separate report today may show initial claims for U. S. jobless benefits rose last week, a Bloomberg survey of economists shows.

While most of America frets over a jobless recovery, the Washington economy is booming.

Jobless investment bankers are legion, though few are willing to admit to being "unemployed" .

Maybe because most of independent journalists of this country are jobless?

The improvement, which brings Germany's jobless rate down to 10. 6 per cent, is the latest positive economic news out of Germany.

Those still counted as jobless have been so, on average, for a post-war record of 34 weeks.

Initial jobless claims surprisingly fell to 364K, the lowest level since April 2008 in the week ended December 17 from 366K a week ago.

The male jobless rate is pumped up by white collar banking jobs lost during the global financial crisis.

But ever since then the number of jobless, including those too discouraged to keep looking, has hovered around 30%.

Weekly jobless-claims data come Thursday, and the Commerce Department reports Friday on May personal income and spending.

The jobless rate is expected to remain around 10 percent for most of this year, which is close to a 26-year high.

Besides the weekly jobless claims numbers, housing and manufacturing data will attract the most attention next week.

But jobless figures recently nudged downwards, and hiring is spreading across a range of industries.

In its budget in February the Obama administration expected a jobless rate of 8. 1% for the year.

That scenario is worse than the current state of the economy, in which the jobless rate is below 9 percent.

This will probably change once the reality of the jobless recovery becomes all too apparent.

Even so, "the jobless rate was still expected to decline slowly and to remain elevated at the end of 2012, " the minutes said.

Weekly jobless claims fell to an eight-month low, a sign layoffs are tapering off, though hiring has yet to pick up.

Extended periods of "jobless recovery" after recessions have been the rule for the past two decades.

Make-work schemes mop up some of the jobless, but may blot a curriculum vitae.

The government has decided to target immigration after the country's jobless figure recently reached a four-year high.

A drop in initial jobless claims also boosted hopes for a recovery .

So a policy that would keep them off the jobless register has obvious appeal for the government.

The jobless rate rose as high as 10. 8 percent in late 1982, just as the recession ended, before inching down.

That's hardly an encouraging omen; at best, we are probably in for a "jobless recovery" .

OFFICIAL statistics can tell you how many workers were jobless last month, how many had college degrees and how many worked in construction.

The recovery remains a disappointing one, in other words, particularly for the more than 14 million workers that remain jobless.

The agency director says their data are fine; the jobless claims have simply ballooned over the past few months.

Other data on tap includes leading economic indicators for March and weekly initial jobless claims.

Jobless claims numbers have been stabilizing in recent weeks.

And from January 2010 any young person who has been jobless for a year or more will be guaranteed a job or training assignment.

But even if the economy does turn up before too long, the prospects for the jobless still look grim.

New US jobless claims jumped up after seeming to have levelled out.

For instance, each of the past seven recessions was preceded by a 20% jump in the four-week moving average for jobless claims.

Despite the economic boost provided by the World Cup, the ranks of the jobless continue to grow.

It was the third consecutive quarter the jobless rate had risen.

The jobless gender gap could exacerbate Democrats historic problems with male voters.

They protest that outsiders are finding jobs in the new economy while many middle-aged Macanese remain jobless.

The jobless rate has already exceeded that figure, and may climb higher when new numbers are released on Friday.

As job growth picks up, these workers could re-enter the labor force, keeping upward pressure on the jobless rate.

Towards the end of the republic's life, one-third of the labour force was jobless.

While indicating a decline in jobless claims, the marginal drop shows little improvement.

Investors may debate whether this will be a jobless recovery but, in effect, it already is.

The site is chock-full of videos of stunned, suddenly jobless people putting their worst foot forward.

A government report that U. S. jobless claims fell in the latest week briefly shrank the Treasury market's best gains.

The government has told the unions that it cannot simply favour the employed at the expense of the jobless and poor.

It discusses the "jobless" growth currently occurring in some rapidly-developing East Asian economies, including China.

More than 14 million Americans are out of work, and nearly half of them have been jobless for six months or longer.

Initial jobless claims are rising again after falling for much of 2010, yet the stock market is just short of record levels.

Some economists blame the extension of unemployment benefits, which America's jobless can now claim for 99 weeks, as long as in France.

How high could he hike the short-term interest rate to slow the economy when the jobless rate is so high?

The jobless rate, however, is not expected to budge from around 9. 6 percent, where it has been stuck for several months.

He is jobless, but he would decline small, run-of-the -mill job.

That suggests 775, 000 more Americans will join the ranks of the jobless in the next six months.

And the money they send home has become essential for jobless rural China.

President Obama's advisers have been overly optimistic about the jobless rate.

As each jobless day passes and Sun lives off a $100 monthly allowance from her parents, she feels more and more guilty.

Unemployment is expected to rise even as the economy recovers: the jobless rate is now at 9. 8%, a 26-year high.

Some fear a repeat of the "jobless recovery" after the 2001 recession when increasing demand was met by rising productivity.

Jobless workers elsewhere may find this argument unpersuasive.

Many of the new jobless are civil servants, including health workers and teachers, laid off by regional governments.

With 80% of Zimbabweans jobless in the midst of an economic catastrophe, few can afford a strike.