{"id":176105,"date":"2020-09-04T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/04\/unemployment-rate-falls\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:20:00","slug":"unemployment-rate-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/09\/04\/unemployment-rate-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rate Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sfWrEU8.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/sfWrEU8.png\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>The Scariest Job Chart Ever<\/i><\/div>\n<p>The official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calculatedriskblog.com\/2020\/09\/august-employment-report-14-million.html\">U-3 unemployment rate fell by 1.8% to 8.4% and the number of unemployed fell by 2.8 million to 13.6 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s undeniably good numbers, particularly since the employment\/population ratio, which is hard to rat-f%$#, has risen as well.<\/p>\n<p>Note that the numbers are from 2 weeks ago though, just 2 weeks after the $600 unemployment supplement ended.<\/p>\n<p>From a political perspective, both sides are going to try to make political hay over this, and the media, being what it is, will absolutely represent it as a &#8220;Both Sides&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scariest Job Chart Ever The official U-3 unemployment rate fell by 1.8% to 8.4% and the number of unemployed fell by 2.8 million to 13.6 million. It&#8217;s undeniably good numbers, particularly since the employment\/population ratio, which is hard to rat-f%$#, has risen as well. Note that the numbers are from 2 weeks ago though, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,374,458,494],"class_list":["post-176105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-politics","tag-recession","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}