Trump plea to states: Keep mum about unemployment stats.

[tishaLA]

The Trump administration is asking state labor officials to delay releasing the precise number of unemployment claims they are fielding, an indication of how uneasy policymakers are about further roiling a stock market already plunging in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

In an email sent Wednesday, the Labor Department instructed state officials to only “provide information using generalities to describe claims levels (very high, large increase)” until the department releases the total number of national claims next Thursday.

The email, which was shared with The New York Times, noted that the reports were monitored closely by financial markets and should therefore remain embargoed. “States should not provide numeric values to the public,” wrote Gay Gilbert, the administrator of the department’s Office of Employment Insurance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/world/coronavirus-update-cases.html#link-76a42417

Job gains dating back to mid-2009, destroyed by the current regime.

[muntrv]

1. Release those numbers, states.

[Skittles]

2. they are really big into hiding numbers these days

fascist fuckers

[RockRaven]

3. States should follow whatever procedures they followed before.

If you released the data on some other schedule previously, then follow that schedule. If you didn't, then don't.

Stop allowing Repukes to game the markets for personal gain based on their knowledge of government data/information. We know Burr and Loeffler both acted upon federal government information not available to the general public to sell stocks prior to the market crashing. Eric Trump's "buy stocks" tweet acts as a "tell" to imply that the Trump family did likewise. Don't enable them.

[tishaLA]

6. One problem is tRump's a prick

who I can totally see going after states if they go against his regime's request to withhold the numbers. Imagine Cuomo or Newsom or Inslee decides to be transparent about this and he figures out a way to screw the state, like when he wanted to withhold aid to CA after the fires.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

4. I hope the governors remember how he treated them

Release the numbers!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. F**king a&&h**e. NT

[dalton99a]

7. "Don't make Trump look bad"

[demmiblue]

8. ...

[Brother Buzz]

9. Hey Sherlock, the Fat Cat stock market players already know the numbers.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. U.S. Department of Labor -- Employment and Unemployment

Here are a whole bunch of links. I'm not linking to them all, as I'm tired.

Employment and Unemployment

Few economic data are as closely watched as measures of employment and unemployment. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a broad range of statistics covering jobs and joblessness.

Webpages on this Topic

National Employment Data
Monthly survey of the payroll records of business establishments provides data on employment, hours, and earnings of workers at the national level.

State and Local Employment Data
Monthly estimates of employment, hours, and earnings for individual states and metropolitan areas from the survey of business establishments.

State and Local Unemployment Data
Monthly estimates of employment and unemployment for all states, metropolitan areas, small labor market areas, counties, cities of 25,000 or more, all cities and towns in New England, and certain other areas.

Mass Layoff Statistics
Monthly reports on all mass layoffs and quarterly reports on layoffs lasting more than 30 days.

Unemployment Insurance Data and Statistics
Unemployment insurance information from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, including weekly claims data, projections, and annual state taxable wage bases and rates.

Employment Projections
Estimates of the labor market 10 years into the future and other career information.

Job Openings and Labor Turnover
Monthly establishment survey producing data on job openings, hires, and separations.

Occupational Employment Statistics
Employment and wage estimates for over 700 occupations.

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
A monthly survey of households that provides a comprehensive body of data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, and persons not in the labor force.

International Labor Comparisons
Unemployment, employment, and labor force indicators for the United States and select foreign countries.

[Midnight Writer]

11. If he spent as much effort doing his job as he spends covering up his incompetence...

and blaming everyone else, then....

Who am I kidding? He'd still screw everything up.