{"id":223321,"date":"2022-03-17T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-economy-flexes-muscle-with-jobless-benefit-rolls-at-52-year-low-factories-humming"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:07:00","slug":"u-s-economy-flexes-muscle-with-jobless-benefit-rolls-at-52-year-low-factories-humming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/u-s-economy-flexes-muscle-with-jobless-benefit-rolls-at-52-year-low-factories-humming","title":{"rendered":"U.S. economy flexes muscle with jobless benefit rolls at 52-year low; factories humming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People line up outside a newly reopened career center for in-person appointments in Louisville, U.S., April 15, 2021. REUTERS\/Amira KaraoudWASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week as demand for labor remained strong, positioning the economy for another month of solid job gains.Unemployment benefit rolls were the smallest in 52 years in early March, the Labor Department&#8217;s weekly jobless claims report on Thursday also showed. Signs of the economy&#8217;s underlying strength against the backdrop of rising inflation and geopolitical tensions were also evident in other reports showing an acceleration in manufacturing production last month and a sharp rebound in homebuilding.The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its policy interest rate by 25 basis points, the first hike in more than three years, and laid out an aggressive plan to push borrowing costs to restrictive levels by 2023. The U.S. central bank said Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine was &#8220;likely to create additional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week as demand for labor remained strong, positioning the economy for another month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,27,86,360,388],"class_list":["post-223321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-manufacturing","tag-social-security","tag-unemployment-benefits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}