june 23, 429,000 people filed for jobless benefits but figure that turned out to require no revision. >> every week since then, 47 weeks in all, the labor department quietly revised upward the number of jobless claims filed. >> vii for 47 at the plate is good batting average. uncanny they are all revise for favor of the administration. >> there is funny business because the numbers can't be off 47 weeks in a row! >> the weekly benefit claims tallied by the labor department employment training administration. the holiday, blizzard, computer crashes can come boyn to produce incomplete data.