{"id":803641,"date":"2020-01-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=378239"},"modified":"2020-01-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:00:00","slug":"colorado-sets-record-low-with-2-5-unemployment-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-sets-record-low-with-2-5-unemployment-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado sets record low with 2.5% unemployment in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-30-at-8.04.54-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 2.5% in December, the lowest level in at least 44 years.<\/p>\n<p>An unemployment rate of 2.6% in October and November tied the previous record low rate in early 2017. The lowest rate before that, 2.7%, occurred in 2000, The Denver Post reports.<\/p>\n<p>Yuma and Kiowa counties in northeastern Colorado had the nation\u2019s lowest seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate of 1.1% in December.<\/p>\n<p>Low unemployment is better than high unemployment but can make it hard for employers to find workers, economist Gary Horvath said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in uncharted territory,\u201d Horvath said. \u201cI\u2019m baffled by how companies are making this work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has averaged about 84,000 job openings a month since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado had about 150,000 openings in September but only 85,000 people unemployed and seeking work, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado had almost five workers for every vacant position in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-sets-record-low-with-2-5-unemployment-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER \u2014 Colorado\u2019s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 2.5% in December, the lowest level in at least 44 years. An unemployment rate of 2.6% in October and November tied the previous record low rate in early 2017. The lowest rate before that, 2.7%, occurred in 2000, The Denver Post reports. Yuma and Kiowa counties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 05:43:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}