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Trend in the number of people filing for first time jobless claims and we are seeing an up trend. the average new faces arriving each week on the unemployment line in america this year is 463,000, that is the average week to week. that number should be a hundred thousand lower and it should be going down. instead it's 463,000 and it's going up. very bad news for the president, very bad news for treasury secretary geithner who says the economy is in pretty good shape. martha: the number needs to be a drop of more than a hundred thousand every time this number comes out to move us in the right d...

The reverse is true, you have an up trend in layoffs essentially that's what you've got. if you want to make a dent in the unemployment numbers in this country you've got to have way below 350,000 new faces arriving on the unemployment lines. we are at 484,000, way out of line. megyn: what do we a tribute this to? this is apparently the highest level in six months for the new unemployment claims. the obama administration had been hope that they had stemmed that tide and the numbers were going to continue to fall, they are not, they are going back up. to what do we a tribute this. >> reporter: ...