{"id":24735,"date":"2018-03-12T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=24735"},"modified":"2018-03-12T10:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T14:26:51","slug":"image-of-the-day-unemployment-down-manufacturing-jobs-accelerate-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/24735\/image-of-the-day-unemployment-down-manufacturing-jobs-accelerate-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Image of the Day:  Unemployment Down, Manufacturing Jobs Accelerate Since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/nam.informz.net\/informzdataservice\/onlineversion\/ind\/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9NzQ0MDkwOCZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9MTA4MTc3NzQyNA==\" target=\"_blank\">National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he latest jobs numbers confirm that the labor market has tightened significantly, with manufacturers increasing employment by a rather robust 18,876 per month on average since the end of 2016.\u00a0 That is quite a turnaround from the sluggish job growth in 2016, and it is a sign that firms have continued to accelerate their hiring as the economic outlook has strengthened and demand and production have improved considerably.\u00a0 Indeed, manufacturers have told us that challenges in recruiting new workers is their primary business concern right now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Manufacturing Jobs Up, Unemployment Down\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nam.org\/is\/employment-mar2018.jpg\" alt=\"Manufacturing Jobs Up, Unemployment Down\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM): [T]he latest jobs numbers confirm that the labor market has tightened significantly, with manufacturers increasing employment by a rather robust 18,876 per month on average since the end of 2016.\u00a0 That is quite a turnaround from the sluggish job growth in 2016, and it is a sign that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2132,4958,27,1568,18],"class_list":["post-24735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-employment","tag-image-of-the-day","tag-jobs","tag-manufacturing","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24736,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24735\/revisions\/24736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}