{"id":272904,"date":"2026-04-17T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272904\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:58:08","slug":"oc-unemployment-falls-to-4-0-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272904\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Unemployment Falls to 4.0% in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate fell to 4.0% in February from a revised 4.1% in January and above the 3.9% in February last year, according to the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s unemployment rate was 5.5% while the U.S.\u2019s was 4.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Nonfarm OC employment fell to 1.68 million, down 2,100 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Trade, transportation and utilities fell the most, 2,400, mostly in retail trade, off 1,500 jobs. \u00a0Three other sectors reported decreases: construction, 1,300; private education and health services, 700; and information, 300.<\/p>\n<p>Five sectors increased, led by government and leisure and hospitality sectors, adding 900 each.<\/p>\n<p>The state declined 19,900 jobs for a total of 18.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate fell to 4.0% in February from a revised 4.1% in January and above the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,12416],"class_list":{"0":"post-272904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-free-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272904","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=272904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}