{"id":170775,"date":"2017-02-23T19:34:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T09:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=170775"},"modified":"2020-09-22T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T03:32:49","slug":"small-drop-in-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/02\/23\/small-drop-in-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Drop In Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99883\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curtis-pitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99883\" title=\"Curtis Pitt\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curtis-pitt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curtis-pitt.jpg 200w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/curtis-pitt-171x300.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queensland Treasurer Curtis Pitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>February 23, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unemployment fell by just 0.3 percentage points in Wide Bay over the past 12 months, figures released on Thursday by Treasurer Curtis Pitt reveal.<\/p>\n<p>But Wide Bay&#8217;s overall unemployment rate of 9.6 per cent was still more than most other regions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pitt said overall unemployment rates fell from January 2016 to January 2017 in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cairns (down 0.4 percentage point to 7.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Logan-Beaudesert (down 2.1ppt to 5.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Moreton Bay North (down 0.2ppt to 6.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Moreton Bay South (down 1.0ppt to 3.9 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Darling Downs-Maranoa (down 0.4ppt to 3.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Fitzroy (down 1.0ppt to 6.3 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Mackay (down 1.9ppt to 5.7 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Gold Coast (down 0.1ppt to 5.3 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Sunshine Coast (down 1.2ppt to 4.7 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Wide Bay (down 0.3ppt to 9.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Unemployment rose in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ipswich (up 1.1 percentage points to 8.3 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Toowoomba (up 0.2ppt to 4.9 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Townsville (up 3.4ppt to 11.4 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Queensland Outback (up 3.4ppt to 11.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Youth unemployment in both the Wide Bay and Darling Downs-Maranoa areas continued to rise.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darling Downs-Maranoa (up 0.7ppt to 9.0 per cent);<\/li>\n<li>Queensland Outback (up 8.2ppt to 36.6 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Sunshine Coast (up 2.1ppt to 10.8 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Toowoomba (up 2.1ppt to 10.4 per cent)<\/li>\n<li>Wide Bay (up 3.8ppt to 24.5 per cent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mr Pitt said the latest regional and youth unemployment figures should prompt regional employers to beat next Tuesday\u2019s deadline for accessing the State Government\u2019s $20,000 Back to Work Youth Boost payment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Palaszczuk Government has implemented a range of programs to generate jobs in regional Queensland and employers and business owners should take advantage of them,\u201d Mr Pitt \u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Back to Work Youth Boost payment offers $20,000 to employers hiring 15-24 year olds before February 28.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pitt said since its December 2016 launch 162 employers in regional centres had received support payments for the 237 young Queenslanders employed under the Back to Work Youth Boost, with a further 253 applications pending.<\/p>\n<p>He said in addition, 642 employers had employed 1384 regional Queenslanders under the Back to Work scheme operating since July last year that provided grants of $10,000 and $15,000 to employers hiring unemployed or long-term unemployed jobseekers. A further 192 Back to Work applications were pending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge regional employers who haven\u2019t taken advantage of the Back to Work program to do so today, especially the Back to Work Youth Boost,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about the Back To Work program, visit the State Government <a href=\"http;\/\/www.qld.gov.au\/backtowork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment fell by just 0.3 percentage points in Wide Bay over the past 12 months, figures released on Thursday by Treasurer Curtis Pitt reveal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":277865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small Drop In Unemployment - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unemployment fell by just 0.3 percentage points in Wide Bay over the past 12 months, figures released on Thursday by Treasurer Curtis Pitt reveal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/02\/23\/small-drop-in-unemployment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small Drop In Unemployment - 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