{"id":1436,"date":"2026-02-09T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2026-02-09T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:12:13","slug":"why-januarys-layoff-surge-feels-like-a-great-recession-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Why January\u2019s layoff surge feels like a Great Recession hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/>U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs in January, the highest January total since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/why-januarys-layoff-surge-feels-like-a-great-recession-hangover\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs in January, the highest January total since 2009, according to Challenger, Gray &amp; Christmas. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}