{"id":21146,"date":"2010-08-07T22:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr-lackluster_private_hiring_reflects_economys_struggles\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T22:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T22:11:58","slug":"npr-lackluster_private_hiring_reflects_economys_struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21146","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8211;Lackluster Private Hiring Reflects Economy&#39;s Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department numbers released Friday also showed that the private sector hired only 31,000 workers in June, revised down from 83,000. May&#8217;s numbers were raised slightly to show 51,000 net new jobs, up from 33,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve definitely seen a one, two month \u201d\u201d in some cases three month \u201d\u201d drop in the economic data,&#8221; Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust in Chicago, told NPR.<\/p>\n<p>Wesbury said that while the numbers are disappointing, he doesn&#8217;t think the nation is heading toward a double-dip recession. &#8220;There are other pieces [of data] that have begun to turn,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s chief economist David Wyss agreed. &#8220;I think we&#8217;re seeing a half-speed recovery,&#8221; he told NPR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129024536\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department numbers released Friday also showed that the private sector hired only 31,000 workers in June, revised down from 83,000. May&#8217;s numbers were raised slightly to show 51,000 net new jobs, up from 33,000. &#8220;We&#8217;ve definitely seen a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21146\">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":[40,589,149,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146","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=21146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}