{"id":32823,"date":"2012-06-02T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_rte_blog_even_mediocre_job_growth_coming_from_wrong_places\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T02:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T02:00:43","slug":"wsj_rte_blog_even_mediocre_job_growth_coming_from_wrong_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32823","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ RTE Blog) Even Mediocre Job Growth Coming From the Wrong Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job growth was weak in May. Just as bad: the type of jobs the economy did manage to add&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the job growth is coming entirely from workers getting part-time jobs. The number of Americans working full-time fell by 266,000 in May, erasing all the gains of the past three months. The total employment figure only rose because 618,000 more people got part-time jobs. Many of those people would rather be working full-time: The number of people classified as \u201cpart time for economic reasons\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d meaning they\u2019re working part-time because they can\u2019t find a full-time job \u201d\u201d rose by 245,000 to 8.1 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/economics\/2012\/06\/01\/even-mediocre-job-growth-coming-from-wrong-places\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job growth was weak in May. Just as bad: the type of jobs the economy did manage to add&#8230;. &#8230;the job growth is coming entirely from workers getting part-time jobs. The number of Americans working full-time fell by 266,000 in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32823\">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-32823","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\/32823","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=32823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}