{"id":460583,"date":"2025-09-29T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:11:13","slug":"island-needs-non-economically-active-people-to-return-to-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/460583\/","title":{"rendered":"Island &#8216;needs non-economically active people to return to workforce&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Monday, 29 September 2025 09:52\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/231525-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Picture credit: Isle of Man Government<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Treasury minister says increasing number of Manx residents in work would ensure a sustainable economy\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Isle of Man needs more people, who aren&#8217;t economically active to get back into the workforce to ensure a sustainable economy going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alex Allinson was responding to calls by an economist for the retirement age to be increased to 72 or 73.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He agreed right across the west there is an ageing population but says people need to be skilled or encouraged to return to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr Allinson added there&#8217;s no plans to increase the retirement age on the Isle of Man:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>And you can listen to the full interview here:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 29 September 2025 09:52 Picture credit: Isle of Man Government Treasury minister says increasing number of Manx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,77,9458,7910,28157,42452,269,12,6226,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-460583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fun","12":"tag-isle-of-man","13":"tag-manx","14":"tag-manx-news","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-presenters","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115287994183300832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}