{"id":44401,"date":"2026-02-13T22:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44401"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:16:45","slug":"the-hidden-number-driving-u-s-job-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44401","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January\u2019s 131,000 increase in the U.S. workforce was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, The New York Times\u2019 chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ben Casselman, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov<\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: The Hidden Number Driving U.S. Job Growth After a year of just 181,000 new jobs, January\u2019s 131,000 increase in the U.S. workforce was surprisingly positive. Ben Casselman, The New York Times\u2019 chief economic correspondent, explains the numbers. By Ben Casselman, Christina Thornell, Christina Shaman, June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov February 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[4875,3841,3435,779,2189,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-44401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-driving","9":"tag-growth","10":"tag-hidden","11":"tag-job","12":"tag-number","13":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}