But the number of long-term unemployed - out of a job for at least 27 weeks - was unchanged, accounting for about 40% of the jobless total.
Of the 1, 289 people who presented themselves as homeless in the county to the year ending in April, almost a third were either youngsters who had left the family home or short-term tenants kicked-out by private sector landlords.
Other figures from the ONS showed that long-term unemployment - those out of work for over a year - increased by 12, 000 in the quarter to September to 894, 000, while 443, 000 people have been jobless for more than two years, up by 21, 000.
Those that only pay attention to the immediate short-term results are the ones that miss-out on the longer-term, more sustainable opportunities.
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The governor, who will be term-limited out of office in January 2007, says the mechanism needs to be adjusted to keep on working.
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Is Nintendo really making a wise and logical move that works out in the long-term, or simply acting out of the same out-of-touch myopia that could doom them?
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Considering the new OEM agreement and related potential for a near-term takeout are likely to continue to out-weigh near-term macro-related risk for the stock, we reiterate our Buy rating.
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Because the core business of banking is taking in money at short-term interest rates and lending it back out at long-term interest rates.
The only way to truly succeed over time is to use your head, think out long-term trends, figure out where productivity exists (and therefore wealth is being created) in the economy, and invest your mind or your money alongside it.
When the cash runs out, the powers-that-be take out short-term, high-interest loans, guaranteed against future oil production.
Harvests are dependent on the weather, and short-term changes in demand are out of kilter with the long-term investments needed to boost supplies of metals and oil.
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But even if British Energy gets short-term financial help it still needs to sort out its long-term future.
Despite the long-term growth of the eating-out sector in the UK, it is currently battling against a volatile economy and changes in disposable incomes, according to the latest statistics from retail analysts Mintel.
Basically, there are a lot of long-term proposals out there that are very important to continuing our economic growth.
The main reason to worry about government borrowing is that it could push up long-term interest rates, crowd out private-sector investment and hamper growth.
The number of long-term unemployed - those who have been out of work for 27 weeks or more - was unchanged from April at 6.8 million.
You are clearly aware of the urgency of the climate crisis, which suggests that leaving out the potential long-term consequences of the discovery out of this piece was a conscious journalistic choice.
By November 2007, when the narrative ends, it was already clear to Mr Morris that this crisis was much more serious than the last big crunch, the 1998 Russian debt default and the bail-out of Long-Term Capital Management, an American hedge fund, by a group of banks under the Fed's direction.
There may be times when a long-term bull market periodically consolidates but fails to avoid getting out and staying out of a long-term bull market that periodically consolidates but fails to meet your 10% target to re-enter, consider putting 5% back to work for each quarter where the total return is plus or minus 5%.
For a player to hold "average cards"--for the short-term fluctuations of randomness to even out completely--the universe of hands must be greater than most players see in several years.
The club was unavailable for comment on Friday, but earlier it was announced that a short-term loan had been taken out to help with the day-to-day running of the club.
More ominously, they are more likely to be numbered among the long-term unemployed -- people who have been out of work six months or more.
They can also try to improve things for the long-term by going out and acquiring something.
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Tim Pawlenty's third-place finish pushed the two-term Minnesota governor out of the presidential race the next morning.
For as long as that buying spree continues, those who worry about the long-term will look out of touch.
Options traders positioning for further upside in the near term picked up out-of-the-money call options in the first hour of the session.
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Certainly not from well-funded companies with the resources to plan long-term and carry out strategies that support these projects over decades, not quarters.
In the New Year, the coalition will publish a mid-term report setting out plans for child care, transport, social care and youth unemployment.
Some of the weaker bits, such as the construction and retailing sectors, will need some long-term strategies mapped out to cope with unemployment and retraining before they can be trimmed.
What these elections cannot tell us is whether politics is as it has been for the last three decades since the 80s - where governments can bounce back after mid-term defeats - or whether we'll soon see a return to the politics of the 70s - of one-term governments thrown out of office.
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