{"id":3688,"date":"2019-09-20T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2019-09-20T02:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T02:00:45","slug":"nsw-continues-to-lead-the-way-with-the-lowest-unemployment-rate-among-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/20\/nsw-continues-to-lead-the-way-with-the-lowest-unemployment-rate-among-the-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY WITH THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AMONG THE STATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW has maintained the lowest unemployment rate among the states and added just under 17,000 jobs in the past month, according to the latest ABS data.<br \/>\nThe State\u2019s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.3 per cent, well below the national average of 5.3 per cent.<br \/>\nThe State added 16,717 jobs in August while the participation rate remained unchanged from last month at 65.9 per cent, just below the record high of 66.2 per cent achieved in May this year.<br \/>\nMinister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres, said it is encouraging to see strong jobs growth across the State.<br \/>\n\u201cThe unemployment rate in NSW has been below or equal to the national average for 54 consecutive months,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cOur commitment to creating 250,000 jobs in four years is continuing to open up opportunities for workers across a wide range of industries and it\u2019s great to see so many people able to find their place in a growing NSW workforce.<br \/>\n\u201cThe fact NSW has the lowest unemployment rate amongst the states shows NSW continues to lead the way as the jobs capital of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW has maintained the lowest unemployment rate among the states and added just under 17,000 jobs in the past month, according to the latest ABS data. The State\u2019s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.3 per cent, well below the national average of 5.3 per cent. The State added 16,717 jobs in August while the participation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/20\/nsw-continues-to-lead-the-way-with-the-lowest-unemployment-rate-among-the-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSW CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY WITH THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATE AMONG THE STATES&#8221;<\/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-3688","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\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}