{"id":523224,"date":"2026-03-06T20:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:46:10","slug":"us-unexpectedly-sheds-92000-jobs-unemployment-rate-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523224\/","title":{"rendered":"US unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs, unemployment rate rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington | US employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose, pointing to lingering fragility in a labour market that was thought to be stabilising.<\/p>\n<p>Nonfarm payrolls decreased 92,000 last month after a strong start to the year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out on Friday (Saturday AEDT). The unemployment rate climbed to 4.4 per cent. The decline in payrolls \u2014 which was one of the largest since the pandemic \u2014 partly reflected a decrease in health care employment due to strike activity.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington | US employers unexpectedly cut jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose, pointing to lingering fragility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-523224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}