{"id":987,"date":"2019-06-24T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/?p=987"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:24:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T19:24:18","slug":"unemployment-rate-drops-to-3-6-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/2019\/06\/24\/unemployment-rate-drops-to-3-6-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rate Drops to 3.6% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people.jpg\" alt=\"people\" class=\"wp-image-988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people.jpg 936w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/digitone.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/people-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unemployment for those 15 and older dropped from 3.8% in the month of April to 3.6% in the month of May. For those aged 25-64, unemployment fell to 3.2%. This constitutes the lowest unemployment rate in the last forty years. These numbers are somewhat misleading, as participation in the workforce dropped from 63.8% in April to 63.3% in May. Amongst those aged 25-64, workforce participation fell from 80.6% in April to 80.3%. In February, workforce participation among those aged 25-64 stood at 81% \u2014 which indicated there has been a definite drop in workforce participation over the course of the last few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment for those 15 and older dropped from 3.8% in the month of April to 3.6% in the month of May. For those aged 25-64, unemployment fell to 3.2%. This constitutes the lowest unemployment rate in the last forty years. These numbers are somewhat misleading, as participation in the workforce dropped from 63.8% in April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitone.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}