{"id":146670,"date":"2026-01-23T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:03:13","slug":"oc-unemployment-drops-to-3-9-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146670\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Unemployment Drops to 3.9% in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate was 3.9% in December, down from a revised 4.2% in November and above the 3.7% a year ago, according to the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s unemployment rate was 5.1% while the U.S.\u2019s was 4.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Nonfarm OC employment declined 100 jobs to 1.71 million jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Five industry sectors rose, led by trade, transportation and utilities, up, 2,200 jobs, most of which were in retail trade.<\/p>\n<p>Five sectors declined, led by government, 2,200, most of which were in local government, down 2,200.<\/p>\n<p>The state reported 18 million jobs, down 1,700 from November.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate was 3.9% in December, down from a revised 4.2% in November and above the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":["post-146670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-free-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}