{"id":68278,"date":"2026-03-06T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/us-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-just-before-trump-joined-iran-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:58:55","slug":"us-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-just-before-trump-joined-iran-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/us-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-just-before-trump-joined-iran-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"US lost 92,000 jobs in February just before Trump joined Iran conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate was 4.4% in February, with 130,000 jobs added in January<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/mar\/06\/oil-biggest-weekly-gain-four-years-strait-of-hormuz-traffic-halt-stock-markets-dollar-imf-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US lost 92,000 jobs in February, a major slackening in the labor market that came just before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> threw the global <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/useconomy\">economy<\/a> into upheaval with his conflict in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate edged up to 4.4% in February. In comparison, the US added 130,000 jobs in January, far surpassing expectations of 70,000 jobs but still 13,000 less than January 2025. Economists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/05\/economy\/us-jobs-report-february-preview\">predicted<\/a> an increase of 60,000 jobs added in February and a steady unemployment rate of 4.3%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/06\/february-jobs-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate was 4.4% in February, with 130,000 jobs added in January Business live \u2013 latest updates The US lost 92,000 jobs in February, a major slackening in the labor market that came just before Donald Trump threw the global economy into upheaval with his conflict in Iran. The unemployment rate edged up to &#8230; <a title=\"US lost 92,000 jobs in February just before Trump joined Iran conflict\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/us-lost-92000-jobs-in-february-just-before-trump-joined-iran-conflict\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US lost 92,000 jobs in February just before Trump joined Iran conflict\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}