{"id":21039,"date":"2013-05-06T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2013-05-06T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:14:46","slug":"unemployment-falls-to-7-5-percent-black-unemployment-rate-remains-at-13-2-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=21039","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Falls To 7.5 Percent, Black Unemployment Rate Remains At 13.2 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department released its April jobs report last Friday, highlighting a slight drop in the overall unemployment rate. With the rate dropping to 7.5% from 7.6% in March, jobless numbers for the African-American community remain at a sobering 13.2%.<\/p>\n<p>In April, 165,000 jobs were added to the economy, a small improvement over the 138,000 jobs added a month prior. While this figure shattered economic predictions, hiring only seems to be happening for just one segment of the overall population: Women workers, with their unemployment rate at 6.7%, were the largest number of job seekers to become employed in April.<\/p>\n<p>Sequestration also played a factor in this most-recent jobs report, with 11,000 federal, state, and local government workers losing their jobs due to budget constraints and other factors.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 11.7 million people are out of work, a staggering rate when compared to the unemployment rate sitting at 4.5% before the recession shattered the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department released its April jobs report last Friday, highlighting a slight drop in the overall unemployment rate. With the rate dropping to 7.5% from 7.6% in March, jobless numbers for the African-American community remain at a sobering 13.2%. In April, 165,000 jobs were added to the economy, a small improvement over the 138,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}