{"id":176708,"date":"2020-04-09T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/09\/6-6-million-new-jobless-claims\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:26:00","slug":"6-6-million-new-jobless-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/09\/6-6-million-new-jobless-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"6.6 Million New Jobless Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-surge-in-unemployment-claims-expected-to-continue-11586424605\">15\u00bd million claims over the past few weeks<\/a>, and only slightly lower than last week&#8217;s 6.9 million claims.<\/p>\n<p>By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, we are now at something in excess of a 13% unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>Not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So that&#8217;s about 15\u00bd million claims over the past few weeks, and only slightly lower than last week&#8217;s 6.9 million claims. By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, we are now at something in excess of a 13% unemployment rate. Not good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[392,450,572,458,494],"class_list":["post-176708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-pandemic","tag-recession","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176708"}],"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=176708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}