{"id":17181,"date":"2010-01-09T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/shrinking_u-s-_labor_force_keeps_unemployment_rate_from_rising\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T20:43:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T20:43:57","slug":"shrinking_u-s-_labor_force_keeps_unemployment_rate_from_rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17181","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking U.S. Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate From Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent in December, economists said.<\/p>\n<p>Had the labor force not decreased by 661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4 percent, according to economists including David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff &#038; Associates in Toronto and Harm Bandholz at UniCredit Research in New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe actual unemployment rate is higher than shown by the official numbers,\u201d\u009d Bandholz said yesterday after a Labor Department report released in Washington showed the economy unexpectedly lost 85,000 jobs in December while the jobless rate was unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-01-09\/shrinking-u-s-labor-force-keeps-unemployment-rate-from-rising.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2010\/01\/08\/pm-jobs\">There is more useful material here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent in December, economists said. Had the labor force not decreased by 661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17181\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}