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16 February 2011- The number of people in employment in the West Midlands has fallen to 68%, lower than at any point since 1993. Unemployment is now up to 9.8%. Read more »
4 February 2011- New profiles for Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Warwickshire and Worcestershire in our series on opportunities in the low carbon economy for local authorities. Read more »
3 December 2010- Local Enterprise Partnerships need to act to reinvigorate the private sector. Read more »
- 3 December 2010
- Trudi Elliott, Chair of the West Midlands Economic Inclusion Panel, endorses our economic inclusion research. Read more »
30 November 2010- We've published a framework for measuring success of the West Midlands skills investment priorities. Read more »
23 November 2010- We've published a new report looking at future demand for entry level jobs. Read more »
23 November 2010- Birmingham Open Data Hack Day, part of International Open Data Hackathon, on 4 December 2010 at Faraday Wharf, Aston Science Park. Read more »
23 November 2010- Sandwell Trends is a local information system providing data, intelligence and analysis about the people and places in Sandwell. Read more »
22 November 2010- New figures from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the impact of culture at local, regional and national levels. Read more »
22 November 2010- ONS West Midlands newsletter rounds up the latest statistical news, publications and forthcoming data releases. Read more »
- 17 November 2010
- There were 233,000 unemployed people in the West Midlands in the quarter July-September 2010. This is 13,000 more unemployed people than in the previous quarter but 35,000 fewer people than the previous year. Read more »
2 November 2010- We've published our State of the West Midlands 2010 report, setting out the key challenges facing the West Midlands and its local areas. Read more »
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