{"id":496007,"date":"2026-02-28T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:47:44","slug":"2026-sona-over-1-million-jobs-created-nearly-1-million-exit-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496007\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 SONA: Over 1 million jobs created, nearly 1 million exit poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/LIVESTREAMING-President-Mahama-presents-2026-State-of-the-Nation-Address-137151\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/35086921.295.jpg\" alt=\"John Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana\" title=\"John Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" \/> play video<\/a>John Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=1349\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Dramani Mahama<\/a> has announced significant progress in Ghana\u2019s employment leading to substantial poverty reduction stating that more than one million Ghanaians secured jobs between the first and third quarters of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the 2026 State of the Nation Address on Friday, February 27, 2026, the president cited data from the Ghana Statistical Service, which indicated that approximately 950,000 people also escaped multidimensional poverty during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the Ghana Statistical Service, over 1 million Ghanaians have found employment between quarter one and quarter three of 2025. About 950,000 have exited multidimensional poverty over the same period,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/NewsArchive\/2026-SONA-Ghana-is-back-and-working-again-President-Mahama-declares-2023567\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 SONA: &#8216;Ghana is back and working again&#8217; &#8211; President Mahama declares<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama emphasised that these gains reflect a strengthening and more resilient economy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are moving decisively from planning to action on our flagship 24-Hour Economy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He further highlighted improvements in Ghana\u2019s external sector, reporting that by December 2025, the current account recorded a surplus of $9.1 billion, equivalent to 8.1% of GDP, up from 1.8% in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The President attributed the positive trends to robust performance in gold, cocoa, and non-traditional exports, as well as increased remittance inflows, describing the developments as evidence of renewed economic resilience.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe State of the Nation Address is in accordance with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It sets out the government&#8217;s priorities, policy direction, and its legislative and development agenda for the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p>MRA\/VPO<\/p>\n<p>LIVESTREAMING: President Mahama presents 2026 State of the Nation Address <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoJohn Dramani Mahama is the President of Ghana President John Dramani Mahama has announced significant progress in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-496007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}