{"id":63985,"date":"2015-11-11T09:35:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4cedef7a48d67815f4f626c2800bfec2"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:35:50","slug":"news-story-secretary-of-state-vows-i-wont-let-wales-slip-behind-as-unemployment-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63985","title":{"rendered":"News story: Secretary of State vows &quot;I won&#8217;t let Wales slip behind&quot; as unemployment rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The latest jobs figures show a fall in employment across Wales after a summer of strong growth.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Market statistics published this morning reveal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employment is down 6,000 on the quarter and the employment rate is down 0.6 percentage points to 70.9%. <\/li>\n<li>Unemployment is up 3,000 on the quarter while the unemployment rate is up 0.2 percentage points to 6.1%. <\/li>\n<li>Inactivity is up 7,000 on the quarter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Year on year, the overall picture for the jobs market is positive with employment up by 44,000, unemployment down and inactivity down by 29,000.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State for Wales,  Stephen Crabb, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a disappointing set of figures for Wales, especially when the rest of the UK is moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>There will be fluctuations in figures from time to time and the long term trend is still a positive one. Wales has made some of the best economic progress in the UK in recent years and we have been closing the gap on the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">But today\u2019s figures show clearly the need to stick to the UK Government\u2019s long term strategy and vision to keep the Welsh economy on track.  I am determined that we will not slip behind.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures show a fall in employment across Wales after a summer of  growth. Year on year, the overall picture for jobs is positive<\/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\/63985"}],"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=63985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}