{"id":35968,"date":"2021-06-04T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35968"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T22:53:19","slug":"economy-adds-559k-jobs-in-may-unemployment-down-to-5-8-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35968","title":{"rendered":"Economy adds 559K jobs in May, unemployment down to 5.8 percent"},"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\">In a\u00a0mild improvement over the previous month, the labor market added 559,000 jobs in May, according to Labor Department data released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Economists had expected roughly 671,000 new jobs, itself a significant step up from April&#8217;s disappointing 266,000.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate fell to 5.8 percent, down from 6.1 the previous month.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a\u00a0mild improvement over the previous&#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":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968","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=35968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35969,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35968\/revisions\/35969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}