{"id":73225,"date":"2026-05-08T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/us-added-115000-jobs-in-april-in-surprise-gain-amid-iran-war-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:57:42","slug":"us-added-115000-jobs-in-april-in-surprise-gain-amid-iran-war-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/us-added-115000-jobs-in-april-in-surprise-gain-amid-iran-war-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"US added 115,000 jobs in April in surprise gain amid Iran war uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment remained steady at 4.3% as the US-Israel war on Iran continues to rattle the American economy<\/p>\n<p>US employers added 115,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3%, a surprisingly robust gain to the labor market<strong> <\/strong>as the US-Israel war with Iran continued to drive up economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Economists projected about 55,000 new jobs and a 4.3% unemployment rate. A day earlier, the labor department announced 200,000 people filed for weekly unemployment benefits, a slight increase from the week before.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/08\/april-jobs-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment remained steady at 4.3% as the US-Israel war on Iran continues to rattle the American economy US employers added 115,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3%, a surprisingly robust gain to the labor market as the US-Israel war with Iran continued to drive up economic uncertainty. Economists projected about &#8230; <a title=\"US added 115,000 jobs in April in surprise gain amid Iran war uncertainty\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/us-added-115000-jobs-in-april-in-surprise-gain-amid-iran-war-uncertainty\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US added 115,000 jobs in April in surprise gain amid Iran war uncertainty\">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-73225","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\/73225","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=73225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}