{"id":222153,"date":"2026-01-28T23:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-piah-defends-govts-job-creation-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:35:50","slug":"liberia-piah-defends-govts-job-creation-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-piah-defends-govts-job-creation-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Piah Defends Govt&#8217;s Job Creation Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Information Minister Jerolinmek Matthew Piah has strongly defended the Government of Liberia&#8217;s job creation record, challenging critics to verify official statistics and questioning claims by others who, according to him, reported creating millions of jobs in a country with a population of fewer than five million people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking Thursday, Minister Piah said it was surprising that Liberians did not question claims by some individuals who alleged they had created 27 million jobs, a figure he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601280367.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Minister Jerolinmek Matthew Piah has strongly defended the Government of Liberia&#8217;s job creation record, challenging critics to verify official statistics and questioning claims by others who, according to him, reported creating millions of jobs in a country with a population of fewer than five million people. Speaking Thursday, Minister Piah said it was surprising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8117,11743,7820,9837,9679,4712,1107,257,53516,254],"class_list":["post-222153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-creation","tag-defends","tag-govts","tag-job","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-piah","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/222153","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=222153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}