Claimant count fall by 32,300, Unemployment holds at 7.8%

Emy1501

Are we suprised with an election round the corner. here is some reality. Note how many jobs were lost in the private sector between Sept-Dec compared to the public one.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/stephanieflanders/2010/03/not_lagging_but_not_leading_ei.html

amcluesent

Quarter of adults out of work

"A total of 10.6 million people either did not have a job, or have stopped looking for one, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics, which indicated that more people than ever before had abandoned the workplace – choosing instead to study, go on sick leave or just give up searching for a job.

A record 149,000 left the workforce and became "economically inactive", between November last year and January, the ONS said. These people more than offset the fall in the headline unemployment.

Added to the economically inactive, were a further 1.04 million part-time workers that were on reduced hours because they could not find a full-time job.

Experts also pointed out that the only jobs being created were in the public sector, with 22,000 created by central government, mostly in the NHS. Ironically, one of the biggest institutions hiring new workers are Jobcentres, which took on 2,250 new workers in the last three months."

FACT - Forget about getting a 36 hour/week productive job in Clown's socialist utopia!

Blacklight

10.6m housewives.

nearlynew

Like all government figures, this is just more spin and bullsh1t.