{"id":91912,"date":"2018-05-15T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d099d79a22f1da2d6917da24ea919feb"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T15:58:00","slug":"press-release-unemployment-levels-at-record-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91912","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Unemployment levels at record low"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This Government is committed to delivering a United Kingdom that works for everyone and so I welcome today\u2019s Labour Market Statistics, which show a continued strength in the Northern Ireland economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The unemployment rate is down to its lowest ever level of 3.1% from over 8% in the wake of the recession and, crucially, the employment rate is up to one of the highest rates on record at 69.7%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">More than 15,000 new jobs were created over the last year, meaning more people with the security of a regular pay packet to provide for themselves and their families.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Labour Market Statistics show unemployment figures in Northern Ireland at a record low.<\/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\/91912"}],"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=91912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}