{"id":123141,"date":"2025-11-05T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123141\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:41:10","slug":"unemployment-rate-hits-5-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123141\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate hits 5% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October rose to 5%, up from 4.2% the same month last year.<\/p>\n<p>The CSO also revised the unemployment rate for September from 4.7% to 5.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate for both men and women was 5% in October, the CSO added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the monthly youth unemployment rate was 13.4% in October, up from a revised rate of 13.3% in September.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s figures show that the seasonally adjusted number of people unemployed was 147,400 in October, compared with 149,100 in September.<\/p>\n<p>There was an increase of 26,800 in the seasonally adjusted number of people unemployed in October of this year compared with October 2024, the CSO added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October rose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-123141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}