{"id":351,"date":"2011-08-17T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T11:00:39","slug":"unemployment-in-greenock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment in Greenock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 17th, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has called on the Tory and SNP governments to wake up to unemployment in Inverclyde.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures show the number of people out of work in Inverclyde has jumped by 200 in just two months. Worryingly, more than half are women.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Job Seekers Allowance claimants is now 5.8 per cent, above the Scottish average of 4.3 per cent<\/p>\n<p>Duncan McNeil, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, said: \u201cThese scandalous figures should be a wake-up call to both George Osborne and Alex Salmond, who seem completely devoid of any ideas on how to get people in the UK, Scotland or Inverclyde back to work.<br \/>\n\u201cThis represents a real unemployment crisis that is hitting women and young people the hardest and the inaction from London and Edinburgh is leaving people in this community struggling for work.<br \/>\n\u201cInverclyde is stuck between a Tory economic policy actively causing unemployment, and an SNP approach which isn\u2019t doing enough to stop it.<br \/>\n\u201cDuring the recent by-election, the First Minister repeatedly talked of his big plans to reindustrialise Inverclyde, yet we are still waiting while the dole queue lengthens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 17th, 2011 Greenock and Inverclyde MSP Duncan McNeil has called on the Tory and SNP governments to wake up to unemployment in Inverclyde. The latest figures show the number of people out of work in Inverclyde has jumped by 200 in just two months. Worryingly, more than half are women. The number of Job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}