{"id":10229,"date":"2021-01-19T08:41:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118331\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-jobless-rate-hits-new-16"},"modified":"2021-01-19T08:41:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:41:39","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-jobless-rate-hits-new-16-year-high-of-6-6-per-cent-with-city-deep-in-coronavirus-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-jobless-rate-hits-new-16-year-high-of-6-6-per-cent-with-city-deep-in-coronavirus-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: jobless rate hits new 16-year high of 6.6 per cent with city deep in coronavirus fight"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong unemployment hit a new 16-year high of 6.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, with the city deep in its struggle against a fourth wave of coronavirus infections \ufeffwhich has ravaged the economy and so far showed no signs of easing.The rolling quarterly jobless rate increased 0.3 percentage points for the three months to December 2020, from the period between September and November, the Census and Statistics Department revealed on Tuesday.An extra 1,500 people did not have jobs\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118331\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-jobless-rate-hits-new-16\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong unemployment hit a new 16-year high of 6.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, with the city deep in its struggle against a fourth wave of coronavirus infections \ufeffwhich has ravaged the economy and so far showed no signs of easing.The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10230,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}