{"id":44656,"date":"2014-06-18T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_federal_reserve_interest_rate_decision_will_focus_on_joblessness\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:30:34","slug":"wsj_federal_reserve_interest_rate_decision_will_focus_on_joblessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44656","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Federal Reserve Interest Rate Decision will Focus on Joblessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, 6.8 million Americans were out of work for six months or longer. Half as many are now. That might sound like good news, but it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly four-fifths of those who became long-term unemployed during the worst period of the downturn have since migrated to the fringes of the job market, a recent study shows, rarely seeking work, taking part-time posts or bouncing between unsteady jobs. Only one in five, according to the study, has returned to lasting full-time work since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The plight of these millions is now at the center of a contentious debate among top U.S. officials over how to spur jobs without stirring inflation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/the-feds-conundrum-will-holding-down-rates-spark-inflation-without-helping-the-long-term-unemployed-1403059133\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, 6.8 million Americans were out of work for six months or longer. Half as many are now. That might sound like good news, but it isn&#8217;t. Nearly four-fifths of those who became long-term unemployed during the worst<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44656\">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":[39,40,175,149,168,671,119,597,596,584,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-federal-reserve","category-globalization","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-u-s-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44656","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=44656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}