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WASHINGTON — The number of newly-laid off workers seeking jobless benefits unexpectedly rose last week, as the job market recovers at a slow and uneven pace.

The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 36,000 to a seasonally adjusted 482,000. Wall Street economists had expected a small drop.

A Labor Department analyst said that much of the increase is due to administrative backlogs leftover from the winter holidays in the state agencies that process the claims.

The total number of people receiving benefits, meanwhile, rose sharply as more recipients began receiving emergency extended benefits, paid for by the federal government.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Ummm, this shyt was UNEXPECTED?? What the hell country are they talking about? I rightfully expected it and still do!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    PRINT MORE “MONEY” !!!!

    j/p :)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    lololol..If I get here after you Cali, my brain has been picked…Well, when all those Christmas part timers got laid off, what the hell were they expecting? I want to really know, are the writers of these stories this embarrassingly oblivious, or really just a part of a cruel joke they are trying to play on ignorant people?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    @Soular, you might be just playing, but you already know that’s their solution to everything!

    Obama will be used as the face of the occupation of Nigeria. I just watched an interview with a Nigerian official on the BBC, and its clear from the line of questioning, that its inevitable. The man was pretty much saying that he has heard from “private sources” who are higher ups in the US Govt, that they believe Nigeria is harboring terrorists…Uh oh! Those are always the code words that precede military intervention. By the way, doesn’t Nigeria have a lot of oil?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    @_A_

    Africom is in effect. If we could only rally this African-Amerikkkans to be black and see the genocide and exploitation of their people. We can do some real change, and I dont mean the begging change Obama has promised to the Obamamites.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    they can take the “UN” off that dayum title

    if you slap sumone you shuld EXPECT them 2 either slap you back or fuk U up
    if you shoot sumone U shuld EXPECT 2 either get shot back or go 2 jail
    if you get hungry U shuld EXPECT 2 eat or try 2 steal 2 eat
    if you are tired of this bullshlt they post as “surprising” articles then of course NewsZero U shuld EXPECT these forms of Comments!!

    Ignorance is Bliss isn’t it NewsZero Staffers

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    NANA, watch that now bruh..talking about the GENIUS staff of this ‘news’ site…we already have ‘ruffled the feathers’ of Casey and Naz…lets be ‘nice’….(smile)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/maatra/ maatra

    The black family commin hard as usual. Jazza, califemme, Nanna, Soularflarez,_A_

    Keep droppin it like its hot. Great minds think alike.

    GARVEY-UP

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Let’s see now; Stay in school, don’t do drugs, don’t run with a gang, don’t have sex and get a girl pregnant; do go to college. get a education. get a job in YOUR field……did most of the things my parents and other (budinskies) expect me to do and I did, but got a degree, yet can’t get in job in my field (Graphic Art) worked in mediocre jobs and now got my hours cut off (like I suppose to make it on THAT salary) still putting up with bulls**t from my rscist bosses and those foreign losers (illiterates and other who can’t speak English or know how to wash their asses) and might lose MY job. So much a single African American guy making it in this WONDERFUL world SMH….

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