{"id":5361,"date":"2011-04-07T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5361"},"modified":"2011-04-07T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:49:04","slug":"pres-obama-jobs-numbers-are-sign-of-economys-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5361","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama:  Jobs Numbers Are Sign Of Economy&#8217;s Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER, MD &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> says unemployment numbers released Friday indicate the economy is showing signs of strength.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, capping the strongest two months of hiring since the recession began. The rate has fallen a full percentage point over the past four months, the sharpest drop since 1983.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Obama<\/strong> says there is still work to be done. He says even as he deals with crises around the world, the U.S. economy is his first priority. <strong>Obama<\/strong> spoke at a shipping facility in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The 2.5 million jobs economists expect to be created over the rest of this year will be only a small portion of the 7.5 million wiped out during the recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER, MD &#8212; President Barack Obama says unemployment numbers released Friday indicate the economy is showing signs of strength. The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, capping the strongest two months of hiring since the recession began. The rate has fallen a full percentage point over the past four [&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-5361","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\/5361","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=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}