{"id":41200,"date":"2013-11-23T19:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T19:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_south_carolina_unemployment_rate_drops_to_its_lowest_level_since_septem\/"},"modified":"2013-11-23T19:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T19:28:25","slug":"the_south_carolina_unemployment_rate_drops_to_its_lowest_level_since_septem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41200","title":{"rendered":"The South Carolina unemployment rate drops to its lowest level since September 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Southeast, South Carolina ranked better than neighboring states such as Georgia, which posted 8.1 percent unemployment, Tennessee at 8.4 and North Carolina at 8.0 percent for October. Among the lowest jobless rates for states in the region were Alabama and Louisiana, both at 6.5 percent for October.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina\u2019s largest employment gains included 2,600 additional jobs in manufacturing and 1,800 in construction.<\/p>\n<p>College of Charleston economist Frank Hefner said the latest data is encouraging news for the jobs market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack to the past, that\u2019s where we are,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cWe are trying to make up for five years of lost activity, and we are getting back to those levels.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20131122\/PC05\/131129828\/1010\/south-carolina-unemployment-rate-drops-to-lowest-level-since-sept-2008\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Southeast, South Carolina ranked better than neighboring states such as Georgia, which posted 8.1 percent unemployment, Tennessee at 8.4 and North Carolina at 8.0 percent for October. Among the lowest jobless rates for states in the region were<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41200\">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":[40,54,582,589,149,600,597,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200","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=41200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}