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The number of people applying for jobless aid fell slightly last week but remained at a high level, showing the coronavirus continues to take a toll on the economy.Some 803,000 people applied for unemployment benefits in the week ending December 19, the Labor Department said Wedn stanley shop esday. That s a drop of 89,000 from the week before. Another 397,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a federal program for the self-employed and gig workers. Even with the potential new stimulus package, labor market damage continues to mount in real time. Total initial claims non-seaso stanley cup nally adjusted ticked down but remain above one million even ten months into this crisis, AnnElizabeth Konkel, economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said in a note. All together, 20.4 million people, or about 1 in 8 workers, were receiving some type of unemployment benefit as of early December. Before the virus struck, jobless applications typically hovered around 225,000 a week. They shot up to 6.9 million in early spring when the virus mdash; and lockdown efforts to contain it mdash; flattened the economy. The number has since come down but remains at historically high levels. In other U.S. economic news, personal incomes fell 1.1% last month, the Commerce Department said in a separate report Wednesday. It s the third drop in the past fo stanley cup ur months, signaling that Americans are feeling the pinch as various government relief programs expire Rsbk Inside the complex process of taking America s political pulse
Newt Gingrich greets local residents after speaking at the Willow Ridge Golf Course, Dec. 15, 2011, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Despite his mantra to stay positive, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took a swipe at rival Ron Paul on Thursday, sugges stanley water jug ting that the Texas congressman s political base consists of people who want to legalize drugs. During a radio interview with conservative commentator John McCaslin, the former House speaker also said Paul is naive about the war on terrorism and Iran s nuclear program. This is a guy who basically says, if the United State stanley isolierkanne s were only nice, it wouldn t have had 9/11. He doesn t want to blame the bad guys. ... He dismisses the danger of Iranian nuclear weapon and seems to be indifferent to the idea that Israel could be wiped out. And as I said, I think the key to his volunteer base is people who want to legalize drugs. Paul has grown in strength in recent polls in Iowa and is threatening Gingrich s ability to merge from the state s Jan. 3 GOP caucuses as the clear-cut conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Both Paul and Romney have unleashed a barrage of negative ads against Gingrich in the first caucus state, pr stanley sverige ompting Gingrich to challenge Romney to go one-on-one with him in a debate. I m happy taking the heat, why doesn t he join me i
The number of people applying for jobless aid fell slightly last week but remained at a high level, showing the coronavirus continues to take a toll on the economy.Some 803,000 people applied for unemployment benefits in the week ending December 19, the Labor Department said Wedn stanley shop esday. That s a drop of 89,000 from the week before. Another 397,000 applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a federal program for the self-employed and gig workers. Even with the potential new stimulus package, labor market damage continues to mount in real time. Total initial claims non-seaso stanley cup nally adjusted ticked down but remain above one million even ten months into this crisis, AnnElizabeth Konkel, economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, said in a note. All together, 20.4 million people, or about 1 in 8 workers, were receiving some type of unemployment benefit as of early December. Before the virus struck, jobless applications typically hovered around 225,000 a week. They shot up to 6.9 million in early spring when the virus mdash; and lockdown efforts to contain it mdash; flattened the economy. The number has since come down but remains at historically high levels. In other U.S. economic news, personal incomes fell 1.1% last month, the Commerce Department said in a separate report Wednesday. It s the third drop in the past fo stanley cup ur months, signaling that Americans are feeling the pinch as various government relief programs expire Rsbk Inside the complex process of taking America s political pulse
Newt Gingrich greets local residents after speaking at the Willow Ridge Golf Course, Dec. 15, 2011, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Despite his mantra to stay positive, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took a swipe at rival Ron Paul on Thursday, sugges stanley water jug ting that the Texas congressman s political base consists of people who want to legalize drugs. During a radio interview with conservative commentator John McCaslin, the former House speaker also said Paul is naive about the war on terrorism and Iran s nuclear program. This is a guy who basically says, if the United State stanley isolierkanne s were only nice, it wouldn t have had 9/11. He doesn t want to blame the bad guys. ... He dismisses the danger of Iranian nuclear weapon and seems to be indifferent to the idea that Israel could be wiped out. And as I said, I think the key to his volunteer base is people who want to legalize drugs. Paul has grown in strength in recent polls in Iowa and is threatening Gingrich s ability to merge from the state s Jan. 3 GOP caucuses as the clear-cut conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Both Paul and Romney have unleashed a barrage of negative ads against Gingrich in the first caucus state, pr stanley sverige ompting Gingrich to challenge Romney to go one-on-one with him in a debate. I m happy taking the heat, why doesn t he join me i
