{"id":45085,"date":"2014-07-16T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ee9754210b92ff4f615a574a62b47eee"},"modified":"2014-07-16T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:45:55","slug":"news-story-nick-clegg-statement-on-employment-statistics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45085","title":{"rendered":"News story: Nick Clegg statement on employment statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/rel\/lms\/labour-market-statistics\/july-2014\/statistical-bulletin.html\">Figures released today<\/a> by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that nearly a million more people are in work compared to a year ago, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/employment-rate-matches-record-high\">the employment rate has never been higher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More people up and down the country are finding jobs as we build a stronger, more balanced economy.<\/p>\n<p>And today we have the highest employment rate on record, which shows that this government has created the right conditions for growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have made the tough decisions to reduce our deficit; lifting around 3 million people out of tax so they keep more of what they earn; healing the scar of the north south divide through the Regional Growth Fund and giving young people a helping hand by boosting apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg gave a statement on the employment statistics released today (16 July 2014).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}