{"id":1191,"date":"2004-10-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/cgc_jobs_report\/"},"modified":"2004-10-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T15:00:00","slug":"cgc_jobs_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/cgc_jobs_report\/","title":{"rendered":"CGC Jobs Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our economy is strong and <a title=\"U.S. layoff announcements leaped 45% in September\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7BB1A3BD45-B068-41F1-80C6-E70929B0288F%7D&#038;siteid=google&#038;dist=google\">growing stronger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Layoff announcements by U.S. companies surged 45 percent in September to nearly 108,000, the highest number of planned job cuts since January, outplacement firm Challenger Grey &#038; Christmas said Tuesday.<br \/>\nJob reduction announcements are up 41 percent from September 2003, while year-to-date job cuts are down 17 percent from 2003&#8217;s pace, Challenger said. The total of 107,863 announced layoffs for the month was not seasonally adjusted, the firm said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The return to six-figure job-cut levels paints a grim picture for ongoing economic growth, as such activity is generally considered a measure of how companies view future business conditions,&#8221; John Challenger, chairman of the firm, said in a written statement.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nChallenger also said corporations announced 16,166 job openings in September, the lowest since Challenger began tracking hiring announcements in May.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can think of a few more employees who should be terminated next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/10\/cgc_jobs_report\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to CGC Jobs Report\"><p>Our economy is strong and growing stronger: Layoff announcements by U.S. companies surged 45 percent in September to nearly 108,000, the highest number of planned job cuts since January, outplacement firm Challenger Grey &#038; Christmas said Tuesday. Job reduction announcements are up 41 percent from September 2003, while year-to-date job cuts are down 17 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}