{"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":""},"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":{"0":"post-230123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-central-banking","10":"tag-economic-growth","11":"tag-economic-growth-recession","12":"tag-economic-news","13":"tag-economic-performance","14":"tag-economic-performance-indicators","15":"tag-economy","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-employment","18":"tag-employment-unemployment-figures","19":"tag-general-news","20":"tag-ie","21":"tag-indicators","22":"tag-interest-rates","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-jobless-claims","25":"tag-labor","26":"tag-labor-issues","27":"tag-labor-personnel-issues","28":"tag-lay-offs","29":"tag-lay-offs-redundancies","30":"tag-monetary-policy","31":"tag-personnel-issues","32":"tag-political","33":"tag-political-general-news","34":"tag-recession","35":"tag-redundancies","36":"tag-synd","37":"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}]}}