{"id":25686,"date":"2020-06-05T12:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25686"},"modified":"2020-06-05T12:36:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T19:36:36","slug":"may-jobless-rate-falls-to-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25686","title":{"rendered":"May jobless rate falls to 13.3%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>The government reported Friday that the unemployment rate dropped to 13.3% last month after soaring to 14.7% in April, an unexpectedly positive turn that suggests the pandemic-induced recession may have hit bottom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-preview\">\n<p>Most analysts had expected the rate would keep rising, perhaps as high as 20%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>But instead employers also added 2.5 million jobs in May after shedding a record-smashing 20.7 million positions the prior month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government reported Friday that the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25687,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25686\/revisions\/25687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}