claman and she is coanchor of countdown to the closing bell and after the bell and all kinds of bells. [laughter] that s right, we want to see this number come down and not jump higher. we get these numbers every thursday. they decide, i don t have a job, i need to apply for unemployment. as you saw in your graphic, it jumped to 385,000. well, people are saying that easter fluctuations in hiring might sometimes affect this number. but it is very nebulous as to why we saw this. the fact is we have seen some trends that have not been so strong. that stretch it out over a year and it s not the worst thing we have ever seen. but maybe we will get some back up into how we should really feel about it tomorrow when we get the march numbers. martha: what is the expectation
a big jump in the weekly unemployment numbers at that came out earlier today. jobless claims increasing to 385,000, the third straight weekly increase we v. and there are a number of stories about the jobs that are created and peter doocy has it live in washington. reporter: megyn, the lower wage jobs are created two and a half times than the mid wage or higher wage jobs. lower wage jobs only made up 21% of losses during the recession and are now responsible for 58% of recovery growth according to the national employment project. and we ve also got a list that shows specifically which low wage jobs are being created and it shows right now a 47% increase in food prep workers, over the last decade. the 24% increase in customer
applications jumping now to a four-month high. that means 385,000 americans filing for first-time benefits in the last week alone. that is up now three weeks in a row. this news as a brand new study shows 60% of jobs lost during the great recession were middle class jobs. peter doocy is on that live in washington. peter, good morning. those middle class jobs, are they coming back or not? reporter: bill, those mid-wage occupations have only made up a fraction, 22% of recovery growth but 58% has been with lower wage jobs. if you add up all the jobs have come back in food services and retail and ememployment services, you get 1.7 million jobs. that is where 43% of net employment growth during the recovery has been. that is according to the national employment law project. you look at the largest percentage growth in those fields over the last 10 full years, there are 47.2% more food prep workers now than there were in 2002.
business network. first the news today, what do you see happening here? each of the last three years we hope the recovery, the recovery will finally start and have real steam to it. in each the last three years the hopes have been dashed and same again now. 385,000 people applying for first-time jobless benefits is far too high. that is huge jump from the past couple weeks, bill. bill: three weeks in a row the numbers have bonn up. we ve seen this pattern at the begin of each year for three years in a row? yes. for three years, there have been hopes that finally, we would have a robust recovery. and each time, the number of people being laid off as opposed to hired but the layoff rate, that s what this number measures, its layoff rate, it popped back up again. for each of the last three years, hope springs eternal, hopes dashed by a divorcening of the labor market situation. bill: do any job cuts have to do with the sequester,
much. just in, lots of just in stuff going on left and right. update on the deadly shooting at fort knox in kentucky. army investigators have a man in custody for questioning. they caught up with him in tennessee. an army spokesman says the killing apparently was domestic in nature. we reported earlier officials saying man gunned down a civilian employee outside the army s human resources command. that office handles all sorts of personnel issues for soldiers. the number of meshes who last week applied for jobless benefits took a step in the wrong direction and rose to the highest point in three months. but economists are cautioning that jobs number could be unpredictable so may not be bad news. we had 385,000 new people apply for unemployment, jump of 28,000 compared to the week before. the third week in a row it s gone up.