{"id":484035,"date":"2026-10-03T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484035\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:12:13","slug":"growing-black-unemployment-taxing-california-billionaires-new-supreme-court-cases-up-first-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484035\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Black Unemployment, Taxing California Billionaires, New Supreme Court Cases : Up First from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected last month, and Black unemployment spiked. California voters will decide whether the state should charge a one-time tax on billionaires, an idea that has split Democrats.\u00a0The Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday, with cases involving climate change, guns and religious rights.<br \/>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/newsletter\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe<\/a> to the Up First newsletter.<br \/>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected last month, and Black unemployment spiked. California voters will decide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-484035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484035","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=484035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}