{"id":24577,"date":"2014-04-16T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=24577"},"modified":"2014-04-16T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T14:14:23","slug":"lets-say-it-very-clearly-of-the-239000-new-jobs-last-quarter-just-19000-were-full-time-employments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/04\/16\/lets-say-it-very-clearly-of-the-239000-new-jobs-last-quarter-just-19000-were-full-time-employments\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s say it very clearly: of the 239,000 new &#8216;jobs&#8217; last quarter just 19,000 were full time employments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The headline employment data today looks good. 239,000 new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>However, self-employment accounted for 146,000 of the increase. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/12\/03\/the-fast-disappearing-income-of-the-uks-self-employed\/\" target=\"_blank\">as I have shown<\/a>, firstly no one really knows how many self employed people there are and secondly, they earned an average of \u00a310,400 each in 2011-12, on a steadily falling trend. These people will be living below the breadline.<\/p>\n<p>So will those in new part-time work, where the figure rose by 74,000.<\/p>\n<p>There were, therefore, just 19,000 new full time jobs. I bet most of those were minimum wage and zero hours contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The exploitation of the UK goes on.<\/p>\n<p>This is no cause for celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The headline employment data today looks good. 239,000 new jobs. However, self-employment accounted for 146,000 of the increase. But as I have shown, firstly no<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/04\/16\/lets-say-it-very-clearly-of-the-239000-new-jobs-last-quarter-just-19000-were-full-time-employments\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}