{"id":2349,"date":"2010-06-04T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/employment-still-lagging\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:32:02","slug":"employment-still-lagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/06\/employment-still-lagging\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Still Lagging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/37505460\" target=\"_blank\">The latest employment numbers are out and it doesn\u2019t look good<\/a> (emphasis mine).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US employers added 430,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but <strong>411,000 of those were temporary census workers<\/strong>. That number was also well short of the more than 500,000 economists had expected. The unemployment rate, however, fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still don\u2019t expect to see significant hiring gains until Q4 of this year at the earliest.\u00a0 My highly non-scientific polling (talking to customers) shows that most are still in a tentative mode.\u00a0 Perhaps some more enlightened analysis will surface later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest employment numbers are out and it doesn\u2019t look good (emphasis mine). US employers added 430,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in May, but 411,000 of those were temporary census workers. That number was also well short of the more than 500,000 economists had expected. The unemployment rate, however, fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent in April. I still don\u2019t expect to see significant hiring gains until Q4 of this year at the earliest.\u00a0 My highly non-scientific polling (talking to customers) shows that most are still in a tentative mode.\u00a0 Perhaps some more enlightened analysis will surface later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,5],"tags":[529,905,1748,50,117],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-BT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->