{"id":9742,"date":"2020-05-31T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T15:28:54","slug":"news-press-now-unemployment-climbing-in-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/31\/news-press-now-unemployment-climbing-in-area\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Unemployment climbing in area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across the nation, unemployment claims total the most in United States history. State-by-state claimant counts are high as well.<\/p>\n<p>In Missouri, the state had an unemployment rate of 4.5% in March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>In Buchanan County, the rate was 4.2%, just below the state average for the unemployed. But unemployment claims from February to March saw a jump from 130 to 1,958 claimants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Missouri Western State University has a Career Development Center aimed at helping students find a job after college, which already can be a hard task. The pandemic makes it even harder for recent graduates to find work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is unfortunately true and I saw it primarily with a couple students that reached out to me,\u201d Megan Raney, career development director at Missouri Western, said.\u201cThey said their internship programs were cancelled. Those part-time positions or temporary ones were the first to go, so obviously that hurts students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/coronavirus\/unemployment-climbing-in-area\/article_3f51daf2-a11e-11ea-9627-bf9c8acd50e8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/b\/7e\/b7ec576e-a1d0-11ea-8feb-27a757651690\/5ed1448502cd7.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C900\" alt=\"career development display\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"tnt-ads-container text-center hidden-xs \">\n<div id=\"fixed-big-ad-top-asset\" class=\"tnt-ads dfp-ad\" data-google-query-id=\"CN-8u9O6k-sCFYIvAQodW08G-w\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the nation, unemployment claims total the most in United States history. State-by-state claimant counts are high as well. In Missouri, the state had an unemployment rate of 4.5% in March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. In Buchanan County, the rate was 4.2%, just below the state average for the unemployed. But unemployment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}