{"id":81557,"date":"2017-06-14T11:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a4945169c87022d9535f6708ac345a00"},"modified":"2017-06-14T11:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:22:19","slug":"press-release-labour-market-statistics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=81557","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Labour Market Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I welcome today\u2019s Labour Market Statistics, which demonstrate continued stability in the Northern Ireland economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The unemployment rate is down to 5.4 per cent, the lowest since the great crash in 2008 and those claiming unemployment related benefits has fallen again, with a drop of 52 per cent since the series peak in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Almost 10,000 new jobs were created in Northern Ireland over the year, meaning more people with the security of a job and a regular pay packet for themselves and their family.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Political stability is a fundamental basis for economic success and securing devolved institutions in Northern Ireland is vital to keep this momentum going as we continue to build an economy that works for everyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State James Brokenshire welcomed today&#8217;s encouraging Labour Market Statistics for Northern Ireland.<\/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\/81557"}],"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=81557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}