{"id":6390,"date":"2026-04-07T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=6390"},"modified":"2026-04-07T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:01:00","slug":"the-u-s-labor-market-bounced-back-last-month-with-healthy-job-growth-and-a-decline-in-unemployment-but-another-trend-also-came-into-focus-the-continuing-fall-in-labor-force-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=6390","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. labor market bounced back last month with healthy job growth and a decline in unemployment. But another trend also came into focus: the continuing fall in labor-force participation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-22878108\" \/><br \/>An aging population and Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown have pushed a key labor metric to a half-century low, excluding the pandemic. That has some economists nervous.<br \/>\n2026-04-07 16:01:00<br \/>\nJeanne Whalen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aging population and Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown have pushed a key labor metric to a half-century low, excluding the pandemic. That has some economists nervous. 2026-04-07 16:01:00 Jeanne Whalen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6390","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\/6390","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=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}