{"id":511118,"date":"2026-01-12T15:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511118\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:34:10","slug":"jobs-numbers-become-focus-as-arizona-heads-toward-statewide-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/511118\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs numbers become focus as Arizona heads toward statewide election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8211; Arizona hit its highest unemployment figure in November since the end of the COVID pandemic and the recession it caused.<\/p>\n<p>The 4.3% seasonally adjusted rate is not that much higher than the prior numbers. And it still is three-tenths of a point below the figure for the same month nationally.<\/p>\n<p>But the numbers are being closely watched as they come as Arizona is headed into a statewide election, with the bid by incumbent Gov. Katie Hobbs to get another four-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Arizona hit its highest unemployment figure in November since the end of the COVID pandemic and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-511118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115882863085715928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}