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To: zonder who wrote (256977)	8/21/2003 11:41:40 AM
From: B.REVERE	Respond to of 436258

"The decline (in claims) was not strongly influenced by the blackout last week," a Labor Department spokesman said. "Only one state inside the blackout region had an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 fewer claims because of filing difficulties." This is most definitely true.(g) After all, NYC,Cleveland, Detroit only have about 15 million people affected and about 1.5 million of them are out of work. Let's say 5% or 75000 are new claims, that means the labor department thinks 96% of all those affected made it in to file. Try 20% or 15000, but who's counting, certainly not the department of bs.