{"id":56840,"date":"2015-05-13T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e535fc211590a9d7655cc3ca10517e9e"},"modified":"2015-05-13T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:31:00","slug":"press-release-youth-unemployment-has-fallen-by-almost-one-third-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=56840","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Youth unemployment has fallen by almost one third in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Youth unemployment in Wales is down by 1,100 over the last month and down by almost a third over the year, official figures published today (13 May) show.<\/p>\n<p>Employment increased by 5,000 over the last quarter with today\u2019s figures showing 1.38million people now in work in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Overall unemployment has fallen by 1,000 over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people claiming Jobseeker\u2019s Allowance in Wales fell by 600 in the last month and by almost 17,000 over the year &#8211; the 25th consecutive monthly fall and the lowest level for nearly 7 years.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"secretary-of-state-for-wales-stephen-crabb-said\">Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">These very encouraging figures show that we are driving forward a recovery that people across all parts of Wales can share in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am pleased that overall employment is increasing and the huge fall in youth unemployment is especially good news.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are creating more opportunities for young people to benefit from training or gain an apprenticeship and ultimately the security of a regular wage<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I want everyone in Wales to feel the benefits of this economic recovery and today\u2019s figures show that we are making real progress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Crabb: &quot;This is an economic recovery that people across all parts of Wales can share in.&quot;<\/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\/56840"}],"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=56840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56904,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56840\/revisions\/56904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}