{"id":46358,"date":"2014-08-13T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0365d09730628e69cc2184de37600509"},"modified":"2014-08-13T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:43:53","slug":"news-story-nick-clegg-on-employment-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46358","title":{"rendered":"News story: Nick Clegg on employment figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released employment figures today for April to June 2014. These showed that the unemployment rate has fallen to 6.4%, the lowest since late 2008, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/record-fall-in-youth-unemployment\">youth unemployment fell by 206,000 over the last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The continued fall in unemployment provides yet more proof that the tough decisions we have made in government have been the right ones to build a stronger economy in a fairer society. I am particularly proud to see a fall in youth unemployment of over 100,000 in the last quarter, the biggest since comparable records began over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The coalition will continue to strive to create the conditions for the economy to thrive, while ensuring everyone has a fair opportunity to take advantage of the recovery \u2013 for instance by lifting around 3 million people out of tax, narrowing the north-south divide through Growth Deals and the Regional Growth Fund, and boosting apprenticeships to help young people take advantage of the opportunities of a recovering economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Prime Minister gave a statement on employment figures released by the Office for National Statistics on 13 August 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\/46358"}],"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=46358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}