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Unemployment rate rises to 4.8%, wage growth cools

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  • Reliability

    40% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Left

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : " "Meanwhile, August had the fewest working days lost to strike action in a single month for nearly six years."
49% : " "Wage growth slowed in the private sector to its lowest rate in nearly four years, but public sector pay growth increased, reflecting some public sector pay rises being awarded earlier than they were last year.
46% : However, the developments underscore the challenging economic environment facing Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, as she prepares to announce tens of billions of pounds of tax increases at the budget on November 26.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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