{"id":890202,"date":"2026-10-22T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890202\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:38:09","slug":"montana-unemployment-rate-drops-to-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890202\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana unemployment rate drops to 3.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest jobs report shows Montana&#8217;s unemployment rate fell again in September.<\/p>\n<p>The state rate is now 3.1%, which is below the 4.2% national rate.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers show nearly 400 more Montanans were working, but the number of payroll jobs fell by about 1,300.<\/p>\n<p>Industries that saw the biggest losses include hospitality, finance and insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that drop, Montana still has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest jobs report shows Montana&#8217;s unemployment rate fell again in September. The state rate is now 3.1%,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-890202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}