{"id":179555,"date":"2024-08-30T04:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-creates-116000-jobs-expands-green-employment-initiatives-employment-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T04:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T02:24:33","slug":"ghana-govt-creates-116000-jobs-expands-green-employment-initiatives-employment-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-govt-creates-116000-jobs-expands-green-employment-initiatives-employment-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Govt Creates 116,000 Jobs, Expands Green Employment Initiatives &#8211; Employment Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to tackle youth unemployment through the Youth Employment Agency (YEA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">That, he said, has been achieved by creating over 116,000 jobs in 2023, adding that this forms part of the transformation to position the YEA as the key facilitator of jobs for the youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Minister, who disclosed this at a press briefing on Wednesday in Accra, noted that among the key initiatives, 15,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408290511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to tackle youth unemployment through the Youth Employment Agency (YEA). That, he said, has been achieved by creating over 116,000 jobs in 2023, adding that this forms part of the transformation to position the YEA as the key facilitator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,14118,7528,9758,4508,4509,4357,12626,7221,6643,5941,257,254],"class_list":["post-179555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creates","tag-employment","tag-expands","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-green","tag-initiatives","tag-jobs","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}