{"id":126816,"date":"2026-05-28T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/states-unemployment-rate-falls-to-3-5-percent-20260528-1810-216155\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2028-11-13T12:10:23","slug":"states-unemployment-rate-falls-to-3-5-percent-20260528-1810-216155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/28\/states-unemployment-rate-falls-to-3-5-percent-20260528-1810-216155\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s Unemployment Rate Falls to 3.5 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced Montana\u2019s unemployment  rate ticked down to 3.5 percent in April. Montana\u2019s  unemployment rate was lower than the national unemployment rate, which remained unchanged over the month at 4.3 percent.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cAs businesses grow and expand in Montana, we want to ensure our workforce is able to meet their employment  needs,\u201d Gianforte said. \u201cThrough 406 JOBS, we\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126816"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=126816"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=126816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}