{"id":1306,"date":"2005-04-26T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2005-04-26T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T07:41:48","slug":"rutherford_coun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1306","title":{"rendered":"Rutherford County, TN: Fastest growth in jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/criticalnews\/articles\/200504\/jobgrowth.html\">Kasey Wehrum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its figures for the fastest-growing large counties in terms of job growth last week, and Rutherford County, Tennessee came in on top at 9.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Small businesses&#8217; hiring habits played no small role in the number of jobs created and lost, according to Brian Headd, economist at the Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&#8221;hen a large company lays off thousands of employees it is national news, but in fact, the rise and fall of small businesses has a much greater effect on job growth than most people realize,&#8221; said Headd.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kasey Wehrum: The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its figures for the fastest-growing large counties in terms of job growth last week, and Rutherford County, Tennessee came in on top at 9.2 percent. Small businesses&#8217; hiring habits played no small role in the number of jobs created and lost, according to Brian Headd, economist at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}