{"id":233813,"date":"2026-01-12T06:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233813\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:28:21","slug":"us-hiring-slowed-in-december-capping-off-weakest-year-of-job-growth-since-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233813\/","title":{"rendered":"US hiring slowed in December, capping off weakest year of job growth since COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, falling short of expectations and capping off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/01\/09\/nx-s1-5670392\/jobs-employment-labor-market-economy-tariffs\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">weakest year<\/a> of job growth since the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Hiring has been sluggish through 2025, which economists attributed to uncertainty around trade and obstinate inflation, as well as the concerns around AI\u2019s impact on the labor market \u2014 factors that prompted the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three consecutive times late in the year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friday\u2019s data released by the Labor Department, the unemployment rate, however, dipped to 4.4% in December after creeping higher for several months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/us-job-growth-slows-december-unemployment-rate-eases-44-2026-01-09\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">bolstering expectations<\/a> that the central bank would hold rates steady this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US economy added 50,000 jobs in December, falling short of expectations and capping off the weakest year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-233813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}