{"id":69893,"date":"2017-08-08T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/unemployment-drops-despite-weaker-than-expected-hiring\/"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:23:02","slug":"unemployment-drops-despite-weaker-than-expected-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/unemployment-drops-despite-weaker-than-expected-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment drops despite weaker than expected hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Denver Post on Monday reported the state\u2019s labor markets took an unexpected turn, as Colorado\u2019s unemployment rate dipped to a historic low of 2.3 percent in April and stayed there in May and June, despite slower than expected job gains.<\/p>\n<p>Associate director of the Business Research Division at the Colorado Leeds School of Business Brian Lewandowski says Colorado employment in 2017 is now projected to increase by 55,800, or 2.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>University of Colorado Boulder forecasters in December were calling for the addition of 63,400 jobs, which represented a 2.4 percent rate of growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post on Monday reported the state\u2019s labor markets took an unexpected turn, as Colorado\u2019s unemployment rate dipped to a historic low of 2.3 percent in April and stayed there in May and June, despite slower than expected job gains. Associate director of the Business Research Division at the Colorado Leeds School of Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69893"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}