{"id":230123,"date":"2025-12-13T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/230123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:19:07","slug":"is-the-economy-losing-jobs-the-feds-rate-cut-hints-at-bigger-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/230123\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the economy losing jobs? The Fed\u2019s rate cut hints at bigger worries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Dec. 12, 2025 at 1:26\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">Is the U.S. jobs market even worse than it looks? Most top officials at the Federal Reserve sure seem to think so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e1bc1vag0 css-1dqcy4b-StyledNewsKitParagraph\" data-type=\"paragraph\" font-size=\"16\">The Fed this week <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/fed-meeting-today-interest-rate-cut-looms\/card\/divided-fed-cuts-rates-signals-caution-about-future-easing-NgwKkIoFrIg5YV0lCVMF?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-1y1y9ag-OverridedLink\">cut its key interest rate<\/a> for the third meeting in a row, showing it\u2019s more anxious about jobs than even the persistence of elevated inflation. Normally, the Fed focuses on keeping inflation low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Dec. 12, 2025 at 1:26\u202fp.m. ET Is the U.S. jobs market even worse than it looks? Most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,12388,2784,89714,11441,56885,85031,179,18,233,96613,3334,19,5782,5389,17,17633,6045,84217,87185,31400,123007,7441,87188,9436,44285,6793,7658,26243,96615],"class_list":["post-230123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-banking","tag-economic-growth","tag-economic-growth-recession","tag-economic-news","tag-economic-performance","tag-economic-performance-indicators","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-employment","tag-employment-unemployment-figures","tag-general-news","tag-ie","tag-indicators","tag-interest-rates","tag-ireland","tag-jobless-claims","tag-labor","tag-labor-issues","tag-labor-personnel-issues","tag-lay-offs","tag-lay-offs-redundancies","tag-monetary-policy","tag-personnel-issues","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-recession","tag-redundancies","tag-synd","tag-unemployment-figures"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}