{"id":615474,"date":"2026-06-01T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615474\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:06:28","slug":"keeping-track-of-trumps-economy-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/615474\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track Of Trump&#8217;s Economy: April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Shockingly \u2014 or perhaps not, because it&#8217;s hard to imagine things being worse \u2014 unemployment stayed largely the same at 4.3% in April, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs are hitting a historic low this summer, as ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/GMA\/Living\/teen-summer-jobs-hit-historic-lows-fewer-employers\/story?id=133324984\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> that teens will struggle to find summer jobs because fewer employers are hiring seasonal workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is especially concerning for younger generations because that means early career experiences, which teens depend on to start building their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, are harder to come by. How will this affect them down the road? That&#8217;s yet to be seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shockingly \u2014 or perhaps not, because it&#8217;s hard to imagine things being worse \u2014 unemployment stayed largely the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,2553,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-615474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-timely","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}