{"id":25150,"date":"2019-01-28T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25150"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:17:38","slug":"image-of-the-day-new-jobless-claims-plummeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25150\/image-of-the-day-new-jobless-claims-plummeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  New Jobless Claims Plummeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, new jobless claims fell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/sites\/dolgov\/files\/OPA\/newsreleases\/ui-claims\/20190128.pdf\">below the milestone 200,000 level<\/a>, and to the lowest point since the 1960s (when the labor force was significantly smaller).\u00a0\u00a0 In this chart, note also the steep drop starting in 2017 with the tax-cutting and deregulatory agenda that arrived with the Trump Administration, after the number of new claims had plateaued toward the end of the Obama Administration:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-lpdXD1xrbs8\/XECD8xWd0DI\/AAAAAAAAxA8\/8riFAME_fMoY9RbzJIdI4Fesz1nmgX5FgCLcBGAs\/s1600\/WeeklyClaimsJan172019.PNG\" alt=\"Jobless Claims Plummet\" width=\"1069\" height=\"705\" \/> Jobless Claims Plummet<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, new jobless claims fell below the milestone 200,000 level, and to the lowest point since the 1960s (when the labor force was significantly smaller).\u00a0\u00a0 In this chart, note also the steep drop starting in 2017 with the tax-cutting and deregulatory agenda that arrived with the Trump Administration, after the number of new claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,4993,18],"class_list":["post-25150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-jobs","tag-trump-bump","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25152,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions\/25152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}