{"id":68630,"date":"2016-03-16T09:33:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c30d86c2044ea0c18e3fc4cc45467f87"},"modified":"2016-03-16T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:33:19","slug":"news-story-employment-in-wales-hits-new-high-with-record-numbers-in-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68630","title":{"rendered":"News story: Employment in Wales hits new high with record numbers in work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The jobs market in Wales continues to strengthen with record numbers of people now in work, according to new figures published today.<\/p>\n<p>Another strong quarter of figures for the Welsh economy shows that employment in Wales is rising with a drop in people claiming benefits. There has also been a fall in the number of people classed as \u201ceconomically inactive\u201d &#8211; those who are not in employment or unemployed, but might for example be studying or looking after a family member.<\/p>\n<p>Headlines from the Labour Market Statistics are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Employment in Wales has increased 33,000 over the last quarter to record levels  <\/li>\n<li>The employment rate (proportion of 16-64 year olds in employment) was 71.5% &#8211; up 1.1 percentage points over the quarter.  <\/li>\n<li>Unemployment levels in Wales have decreased by 8,000 over the last quarter   <\/li>\n<li>The unemployment rate (proportion of 16+ unemployed) was 5.2% &#8211; down 0.7 percentage points over the quarter.   <\/li>\n<li>Economic inactivity decreased 13,000 over the quarter and fallen 24,000 over the last year.  <\/li>\n<li>The claimant count fell by 900 in February.  <\/li>\n<li>There are 675,000 women in employment, an increase of 5,000 (0.8%) over the quarter and 18,000 (2.8%) over the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stephen Crabb, Secretary of State for Wales, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>These are a superb set of employment figures for Wales. There is a wave of optimism and ambition in the Welsh economy right now, translating into real jobs and rising wages for the people of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Record numbers of Welsh people are now going out to work every day &#8211; helping families get on, putting food on the table, and lifting children out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Wales is back in business &#8211; but we can do even more. There are huge challenges in the steel industry which we must work together to tackle. I am determined to see Wales continue to climb from the bottom of the economic league table, and today\u2019s Budget will help Wales to do just that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another strong quarter of figures for the Welsh economy shows employment in Wales is rising with a drop in people claiming benefits<\/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\/68630"}],"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=68630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}