{"id":10327,"date":"2026-07-15T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:30:00","slug":"the-economy-has-added-jobs-for-four-straight-months-and-the-unemployment-rate-has-drifted-down-to-4-2-yet-nearly-two-million-americans-have-been-locked-out-of-the-job-market-for-at-least-half-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=10327","title":{"rendered":"The economy has added jobs for four straight months, and the unemployment rate has drifted down to 4.2%, yet nearly two million Americans have been locked out of the job market for at least half a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-65520860\" \/><br \/>The share of job seekers out of work for six months or longer is hovering near highest level in five years.<br \/>\n2026-07-15 09:30:00<br \/>\nHarriet Torry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The share of job seekers out of work for six months or longer is hovering near highest level in five years. 2026-07-15 09:30:00 Harriet Torry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}