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May’s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for download. This month’s installment looks at the debate around HS2, how much money you need to earn to be happy, inequality in the region, ongoing protests against LGBT-inclusive education, a range of regeneration projects planned for Birmingham, and the latest statistics around employment, business confidence and GDP.<\/p>\n
Get the May edition of the monitor by clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This blog was written by Liam O\u2019Farrell<\/a>, Policy and Data Analyst, City-REDI, University of Birmingham.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Disclaimer:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> To sign up for our blog mailing list, please\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" May’s edition of the West Midlands Economic Monitor is now available for download. This month’s installment looks at the debate around HS2, how much money you need to earn to be happy, inequality in the region, ongoing protests against LGBT-inclusive education, a range of regeneration projects planned for Birmingham, and the latest statistics around employment, … Continue reading “West Midlands Economic Monitor: May 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":5881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,23,85,6,267],"tags":[52,24,27,122,196,229,111,322],"class_list":["post-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cities","category-city-redi","category-city-redi-publications","category-economics","category-regions","tag-birmingham","tag-city-redi","tag-economic-growth","tag-employment","tag-housing","tag-liam-ofarrell","tag-west-midlands","tag-west-midlands-economic-monitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5909,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions\/5909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cityredi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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