{"id":132482,"date":"2026-02-13T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132482\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:59:16","slug":"the-hidden-number-driving-u-s-job-growth-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132482\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770994756_885_casselman-jumbo.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January\u2019s 131,000 increase in the U.S. workforce was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, The New York Times\u2019 chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>By Ben Casselman, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov<\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth After a year of just 181,000 new jobs,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[56676,56677,3415,9,24,55714,63,134,136,135,5023],"class_list":{"0":"post-132482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-bls","9":"tag-careers-and-professions","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-number","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-staten-island","16":"tag-staten-island-headlines","17":"tag-staten-island-news","18":"tag-us-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}