{"id":6996,"date":"2019-02-01T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-economy-adds-304000-jobs-in-january\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:14:10","slug":"us-economy-adds-304000-jobs-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/us-economy-adds-304000-jobs-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"US economy adds 304,000 jobs in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"vacancy sign\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1287\/production\/_105434740_gettyimages-1028574322.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 304,000 jobs in January, official figures have shown.<\/p>\n<p>The figure was far in excess of economists&#8217; forecasts of 165,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, December&#8217;s jobs growth figure was revised to 222,000, down from an initial estimate of 312,000.<\/p>\n<p>Last month saw jobs being added in leisure and hospitality, construction, health care, transportation and warehousing, according to the US Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers exclude farm work, which is seasonal and often volatile.<\/p>\n<p>Growth of 100,000 jobs per month is required in the US to keep pace with growth in the working-age population.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-47092341\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images The US economy added a stronger-than-expected 304,000 jobs in January, official figures have shown. The figure was far in excess of economists&#8217; forecasts of 165,000. However, December&#8217;s jobs growth figure was revised to 222,000, down from an initial estimate of 312,000. Last month saw jobs being added in leisure and hospitality, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}