{"id":425068,"date":"2026-04-30T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:33:30","slug":"germany-april-unemployment-change-20k-vs-4k-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425068\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany April unemployment change 20k vs 4k expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior 0kUnemployment rate 6.4% vs 6.3% expectedPrior 6.3%; revised to 6.4%<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">The struggle continues as the jobless figure rose by 20,000 on the month. So, that brings the overall number of unemployed persons to above 3 million now (3.006 million to be exact). Meanwhile, the jobless rate is keeping steady at 6.4% after the revision to March but that is the highest since July 2020. The German labour office notes that:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\" data-v-6bf95c48=\"\">&#8220;There is still no sign of a turnaround in the labour market. The spring upturn remains weak in April as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prior 0kUnemployment rate 6.4% vs 6.3% expectedPrior 6.3%; revised to 6.4% The struggle continues as the jobless figure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-425068","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\/425068","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=425068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}