{"id":32441,"date":"2021-03-05T10:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32441"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:23:09","slug":"economy-adds-379k-jobs-in-first-report-of-biden-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32441","title":{"rendered":"Economy adds 379K jobs in first report of Biden presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The economy added a\u00a0whopping 379,000 jobs\u00a0in February, a major improvement from the 49,000 jobs added the previous month, and over double the 175,000 economists expected.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate fell to 6.2 percent from 6.3 percent last month, and the number of unemployed people remained similar at 10 million.<\/p>\n<p>The latest jobs data\u00a0\u2014\u00a0covering the first full months of the Biden presidency\u00a0\u2014\u00a0points to early signs of improvement for an economy still struggling to dig itself out of a deep hole.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy added a\u00a0whopping 379,000 jobs\u00a0in&#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-32441","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\/32441","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=32441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32442,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions\/32442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}