{"id":902,"date":"2015-09-16T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=902"},"modified":"2015-09-18T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T11:18:58","slug":"new-fall-in-unemployment-in-sevenoaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"New Fall in Unemployment in Sevenoaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/18ed13829971ce8dd88c9144f3dbec71.png\" alt=\"unemployment sep 15\" width=\"354\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/18ed13829971ce8dd88c9144f3dbec71.png 550w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/18ed13829971ce8dd88c9144f3dbec71-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/18ed13829971ce8dd88c9144f3dbec71-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 85vw, 354px\" \/>Michael welcomed the <a title=\"ONS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/ons\/dcp171778_414231.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">latest figures<\/a> which were released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing that unemployment in the Sevenoaks constituency fell in August.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment is now 27% lower than in 2014 and 57% lower than in 2010.\u00a0 Youth unemployment has fallen by a third since the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>Across the country, average earnings increased by 2.9%\u00a0over the year, the fastest rate since 2002.\u00a0 With figures released yesterday showing inflation at 0.1%, this means that hardworking\u00a0people have more money in their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>Michael said: \u00a0&#8220;I am very pleased that unemployment in Sevenoaks continues to fall.\u00a0 It is particularly good to see that earnings are growing significantly.\u00a0 While there is always more to be done, the Government\u2019s long-term economic plan to support hardworking people is clearly succeeding in the Sevenoaks constituency.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael welcomed the latest figures which were released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing that unemployment in the Sevenoaks constituency fell in August. Unemployment is now 27% lower than in 2014 and 57% lower than in 2010.\u00a0 Youth unemployment has fallen by a third since the same month last year. Across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Fall in Unemployment in Sevenoaks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}