{"id":485768,"date":"2026-02-17T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485768\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:00:07","slug":"uk-unemployment-hits-highest-rate-for-nearly-five-years-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/485768\/","title":{"rendered":"UK unemployment hits highest rate for nearly five years &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFBjRHpsOGhpTkZYQWthaHZYZzhYdnI2Qkh2WndNRi1EOWd6RU4xa0txT0tYQ3JSc2cza2RXdmd3Slk0aWRIREdQWW9kQjd3d3Y4MVJjYml0dVRMZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK unemployment hits highest rate for nearly five years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiVEFVX3lxTFB2bUYtUTdpeVA1SmVDX0d4cDV3amlzSkktNTNOU2p4dE5vRzlNTnZ5dVNvMXRndHFfcG9mUTVEdlQ5M3NvcV83MmZfS1ItX0Z5NVNacQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK unemployment rate hits near five-year high as wage growth slows<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijwFBVV95cUxPV2ZrR0lYY2kwcktoc0JmYWg1clQwaUV1WXhGZlJacjRIT2lIVG0zZC1DOEtCc2s3TmdUWHN5cC1BaFV2aG80SlFRMmJFNGUtd0VWZEt0TXJkY2hHc1lRRkd5MndQUmk4U2k5dFVXRzFiSnJxS3ZWQ0g4cFc1dXpyTEZ1T2Q4ell0d3Yza1dCWQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jobs crisis London: unemployment jumps to new five year high of 7.6%<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo Finance Australia<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxNLVZPVGs3dlZvSUpzbU5WMElSNG8xbDUxRVc4eW0xQXdqLVlzc1NLQjNueWl5VGs5LUpNbHpFLWthV3Y0U0pMMlljZ0ZPQ3VFdFh1Zmo2VVBwanJRUFRRMkN3bURfZ2R6ZS1hNUZPRUpnYUkza045cUFqOU1ESDZCclJ0MHd4ZktvNHlDMllLQ2tsdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK unemployment rate hits five-year high of 5.2% as wage growth cools<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQZ1JhamVMVXRSSGxBeVpiV0I5b2hvOFJ4WHgzWmljcHE1V2R1Qkx5aG1pRjNKOTM3QmwyZE1vazM2V1dET3FTVlFTTUVqX1ZMM0dDT3hSODY3bmZZckVCYTlTN1ZUUVRKb0E4WUV2ZFRaNGUweW9RN0ZLN2dLLThfRGRLVFpRamNGWnBlN2VtSEV4eGs0REs3VVc5c1JOUnFCQTFZbGotMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UK Unemployment at 5-Year High Paves Way for More BOE Rate Cuts<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK unemployment hits highest rate for nearly five years&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCUK unemployment rate hits near five-year high as wage growth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-485768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}