{"id":6427,"date":"2011-05-09T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2011-05-09T13:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:31:40","slug":"u-s-economy-adds-244k-jobs-unemployment-ticks-back-to-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6427","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Economy Adds 244k Jobs, Unemployment Ticks Back To 9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department reported non-farm payrolls grew by 244,000 in April, well above expectations and March\u2019s upwardly revised 221,000. The unemployment rate inched back up to 9%, from 8.8%, though the number of unemployed persons, 13.7 million, and the size of the labor force, were little changed.<\/p>\n<p>Private sector payrolls added 268,000 jobs in April, offset by the downward trend in state and local government employment. In an encouraging trend, the gains were broad-based, with jobs in services, manufacturing and mining all picking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department reported non-farm payrolls grew by 244,000 in April, well above expectations and March\u2019s upwardly revised 221,000. The unemployment rate inched back up to 9%, from 8.8%, though the number of unemployed persons, 13.7 million, and the size of the labor force, were little changed. Private sector payrolls added 268,000 jobs in April, [&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-6427","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\/6427","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=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}