{"id":140133,"date":"2025-09-16T01:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140133\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T01:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T01:49:07","slug":"growth-report-plans-for-billions-boost-to-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140133\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth report plans for billions boost to region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the heart of the report is an &#8220;opportunity escalator&#8221;, a toolkit designed to help spread jobs and prosperity as widely as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This looks at providing building blocks for workers and students, like transport, homes and healthy neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It then seeks to match up skills with better paying jobs by linking authorities, educational centres and employers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report said targeted investment could boost the economy by \u00a3200bn within 10 years, and supporting the 18 most promising new industrial sites could help 30,000 low-paid workers earn about \u00a36,700 more each year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additionally, it estimates helping people build stronger networks and connections could add \u00a31.4bn in extra income for the poorest households by 2035.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the heart of the report is an &#8220;opportunity escalator&#8221;, a toolkit designed to help spread jobs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-140133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}