{"id":173822,"date":"2023-08-04T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/hr-topics\/talent-acquisition\/pages\/bls-hr-jobs-unemployment-august-2023.aspx"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:29:36","slug":"july-job-gains-below-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/04\/july-job-gains-below-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"July Job Gains Below Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/squarehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/july-job-gains-below-expectations.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/squarehr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/july-job-gains-below-expectations-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u200bU.S. employers added 187,000 new jobs in July, down from 209,000 in June and below economists&#8217; expectations,&nbsp;according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.nr0.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">latest employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Most of the new jobs were reported in health care,&nbsp;finance and construction.<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that the unemployment rate dipped to 3.6 percent from 3.5 percent in June, and average hourly earnings rose by 0.4 percent, to $33.74. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 4.4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back later for more analysis from labor market experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bU.S. employers added 187,000 new jobs in July, down from 209,000 in June and below economists&#8217; expectations,&nbsp;according to the latest employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of the new jobs were reported in health care,&nbsp;finance and construction. The report noted that the unemployment rate dipped to 3.6 percent from 3.5 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-evaluation","category-hr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squarehrwired.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}