{"id":894,"date":"2026-01-05T00:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/collapse-of-zombie-uk-firms-forecast-to-fuel-unemployment-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:17:24","slug":"collapse-of-zombie-uk-firms-forecast-to-fuel-unemployment-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/collapse-of-zombie-uk-firms-forecast-to-fuel-unemployment-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of \u2018zombie\u2019 UK firms forecast to fuel unemployment in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses being hit by rising cost of interest rates, energy costs and wages, says Resolution FoundationThe UK is poised for a rise in unemployment in 2026 fuelled by the collapse of \u201czombie\u201d companies that have struggled to adapt to a rise in business costs, according to a report.At the start of what could be a pivotal year for the economy, the Resolution Foundation said businesses were grappling with a \u201ctriple whammy\u201d of multiyear increases in interest rates, energy prices and the minimum wage that could \u201cfinish off\u201d some underperforming companies. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses being hit by rising cost of interest rates, energy costs and wages, says Resolution FoundationThe UK is poised for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}