{"id":328059,"date":"2026-05-22T17:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:02:07","slug":"oc-unemployment-falls-to-3-7-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328059\/","title":{"rendered":"OC Unemployment Falls to 3.7% in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate fell to 3.7% in April from a revised 3.8% in March and below the 3.8% in April last year, according to the state\u2019s Employment Development Department.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s unemployment rate was 5.0% while the U.S.\u2019s was 4.0%.<\/p>\n<p>Nonfarm OC employment rose to 1.68 million, up 5,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The leisure and hospitality sector added 2,700 jobs. Other sectors that rose include construction, 2,000, private education and health services and government, each up 500 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing dropped the most, 700 jobs, mostly in durable goods.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s nonfarm jobs declined by 3,300 jobs in April, for a total of 18.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County\u2019s unemployment rate fell to 3.7% in April from a revised 3.8% in March and below the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-328059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328059","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=328059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}