{"id":28980,"date":"2021-02-05T12:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=28980"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T18:21:21","slug":"u-s-job-growth-remains-sluggish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/u-s-job-growth-remains-sluggish\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. job growth remains sluggish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The economy added just 49,000 jobs in January as the coronavirus pandemic continued to hamper recovery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest U.S. jobs report, losses continue to hit workers at retail stores, restaurants, casinos, and hotels, despite some gains in other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department said the unemployment rate fell to 6.3%, down 0.4 percentage points from December. Analysts attributed the fall to more people giving up on looking for work, as roughly 400,00 more people withdrew from the labor force.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the U.S. economy is still 10 million jobs short of where it stood in February 2020, before the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The gains in January followed losses in December that put an end to a streak of job gains starting in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department said on Friday those falls were deeper than originally estimated, with 227,000 jobs cut instead of 140,000 as previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The losses have hit low-income, minority, and female workers hardest, the data confirmed\u2014a trend that continued in January. Nearly 40% of the unemployed have been without work for more than six months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy added just 49,000 jobs in January as the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":28981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[80,563,571,3379],"class_list":["post-28980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-losses","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28982,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28980\/revisions\/28982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}