Part of an overall Unemployment Rate of 5. 3 injuly. All of which has had people taking to social media. Kerry allen works for Bbc Monitoring and has been observing Social Media Activity in china discussing this move. What are people saying in china about this move to stop counting Youth Unemployment . This has been a major Talking Point on social media and state media have reported this is not something young people should worry about and that things are projected to improve from august onwards but on social media a lot of comments that i have seen are very cynical, showing that statistically unemployment has been rising since the beginning of the year, and they are commenting things like, everything is stable, everything is improving, and the idea that if you do not see the data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not dead data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly not dead over data, it is not a problem. Sarcasm is clearly no
Because the pensions act came in in 1995, and in theory it goes 15 years of notice before the State Pension age and started to rise for women in 2010, actually, as the report spells out, the communication was not clear enough, and i think, one of the issuesis enough, and i think, one of the issues is that because the State Pension age for women rose over a number of years, which is obviously fairer than number of years, which is obviously fairerthan an number of years, which is obviously fairer than an overnight rise, it meant that individual women, they might know somebody who is, say, six months older or six months younger, but they could have a very different State Pension age to them themselves, which is why i think it was very confusing for the individual women to actually work out how they were going to be affected, that is assuming that they knew in the first place that they would be. ~ knew in the first place that they would be. , ~ ,. , knew in the first place that they would
Flames. This is one of the worst affected areas. 0fficials flames. This is one of the worst affected areas. Officials say they are struggling to assess the full extent of the damage, and warn the death toll may rise further. Is anybody still out here . Its time to go these are the desperate calls for people still in the historic City Of Lahaina on the island of maui, as the flames on the marina gets closer and closer. Many neighbourhoods were burned to the ground as the western side of the island was nearly cut off with only one highway open, and thousands trying to evacuate as officials told of widespread devastation in the town, its harbour and surrounding areas. Some people fled into the ocean to escape the smoke and flames. I was the last one off the dock, when the firestorm came through the banyan trees and took everything with it. And ijust ran out to the beach and i ran south, and ijust helped everybody i could along the way. Youve got to know when you can. The cause of all this
Rates have gone up again, for the 14th time in a row. The Bank Of England has put up its main rate from 5 to 5. 25 . That will mean higher mortgages for some people, but its also good news for savers. The Bank Of England is using Interest Rate rises to fight inflation, which has slowed recently, but which is still nearly 8 . Our economics correspondent andy verity reports the father of two, peter, keeping up the payments for his familys mortgages looking like anything but childs play. They bought their home under the governments help to buy scheme, but since then Interest Rates have risen 1a times. When his fixed rate deal expires early next year, the payments willjump. Somehow we are supposed to spend less and find an extra £750 per month to pay for that. For many families it is a terrifying situation, but if you have a young family like ourselves, who have been swayed into the Housing Market by government who has advertised help to buy as an affordable scheme, right, when things bec