{"id":973,"date":"2011-11-10T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=973"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T16:04:11","slug":"unemployment-claims-drop-trade-gap-narrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/11\/unemployment-claims-drop-trade-gap-narrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Claims Drop; Trade Gap Narrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 390,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That&#8217;s the fewest since April.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $43.1 billion in September, its lowest point of the year, the Commerce Department said. Foreign sales of American-made autos, airplanes and heavy machinery pushed exports to an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>The data suggest layoffs are easing and the economy grew slightly better over the summer than the government had estimated a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/10\/142208323\/unemployment-claims-drop-trade-gap-narrows?ft=1&amp;f=1001\">Unemployment Claims Drop; Trade Gap Narrows : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 390,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That&#8217;s the fewest since April. The U.S. trade deficit narrowed to $43.1 billion in September, its lowest point of the year, the Commerce Department said. Foreign sales of American-made autos, airplanes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,22],"tags":[34,36,610,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}