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Jobless Claims Data Inadvertently Posted One Day Early
Jobless Claims Data Inadvertently Posted One Day Early
August 10,2012
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, CNBC reports that the Department of Labor inadvertently released initial jobless claims numbers on an agency website a day prior to its official Thursday release. ( http://www.cnbc.com/id/48600271 )
The Labor Department said in a press release,that the news announcing jobless claims data was placed in an automated software system on August 8 in preparation for being posted on the Internet on August 9. Two weeks ago, new testing procedures were implemented for the automated system.
It seems a test of the automated system that was conducted on Thursday inadvertently triggered the release of the unemployment claims report,” ahead of the scheduled date .
The Jobless Claims data was posted on the department’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) website at 5:10 p.m. on August 8.
ETA is conducting an internal review of testing procedures and has notified the department’s Office of Inspector General.
