{"id":26526,"date":"2011-06-03T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hiring_in_the_u-s-_slows_significantly_in_may\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:54:49","slug":"hiring_in_the_u-s-_slows_significantly_in_may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26526","title":{"rendered":"Hiring in the U.S. Slows Significantly in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last month, following an increase of 232,000 jobs in April. May\u2019s job gain was about a third of what economists had been forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate ticked up to 9.1 percent from 9.0 percent in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/04\/business\/economy\/04jobs.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery. The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54,000 nonfarm payroll jobs last<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26526\">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":[40,615,589,149,617,597,616,151,667,618,619,596,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-city-government","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26526","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=26526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}