{"id":35985,"date":"2021-06-04T19:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35985"},"modified":"2021-06-04T19:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:21:42","slug":"key-takeaways-from-may-jobs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35985","title":{"rendered":"Key takeaways from May jobs report"},"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\">Politicians, economists and lawmakers are all pouring over the May jobs report that showed the U.S. added jobs as the unemployment rate fell.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the economy gained 559,000 new workers and the jobless rate dropped to a pandemic-low of 5.9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Employers more than doubled April\u2019s disappointing jobs gain, but last month\u2019s total still fell short of Wall Street\u2019s expectations, and well below the 1 million-plus monthly hauls some had anticipated earlier.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians, economists and lawmakers are all&#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-35985","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\/35985","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=35985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35986,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35985\/revisions\/35986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}