New South Wales has maintained the lowest unemployment rate among the states for the fifth consecutive month, according to today\u2019s ABS labour force data.
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The figure shows 5,100 fewer people are in work but the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.1 per cent. The national unemployment rate increased to 3.7 per cent.
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The female unemployment rate is 2.8 per cent in NSW, the lowest since monthly records began.
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NSW Treasurer Matt Kean said today\u2019s figures demonstrated the strength of the NSW economy and the impact of the state\u2019s initiatives for women and childcare.
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\u201cWe expect our initiatives for women and childcare will support more women in employment and unlock future productivity dividends to strengthen our economy,\u201d Mr Kean said.
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\u201cToday\u2019s results are encouraging considering the current national and international economic challenges we\u2019re facing here in NSW.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New South Wales has maintained the lowest unemployment rate among the states for the fifth consecutive month, according to today\u2019s ABS labour force data.\u00a0The figure shows 5,100 fewer people are in work but the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.1 per cent. The national unemployment rate increased to 3.7 per cent.\u00a0The female unemployment rate is … Continue reading “NSW jobs market continues strong run with lowest unemployment rate in Australia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20213,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20212\/revisions\/20213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}