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Unemployment rises 0.1%
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Did anyone else spot that the number of people in employment increased, both on the quarter and the year? Notwithstanding the margin of error.
I'm guessing it's down to people being kicked off other benefits and now counting as unemployed.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »It is indeed, and bad news for those losing a job.
Still, I'm sure there will be a vulture somewhere salivating at the thought of picking up a cheap house.
Like yourself for instance if you were say 28, single, not wanting to live with anybody else, on say 25k, not much savings as you're now paying off your university debt.
Don't try to kid anyone that the majority of people who are sitting pretty because of HPI are doing so because they were born at the right time and were lucky..... zero skill involved.Have owned outright since Sept 2009, however I'm of the firm belief that high prices are a cancer on society, they have sucked money out of the economy, handing it to banks who've squandered it.0 -
Like yourself for instance if you were say 28, single, not wanting to live with anybody else, on say 25k, not much savings as you're now paying off your university debt.
Don't try to kid anyone that the majority of people who are sitting pretty because of HPI are doing so because they were born at the right time and were lucky..... zero skill involved.
7 years out of uni and only on £25k?
What was the degree in - dance?0 -
Graham_Devon wrote: »For 16-24 year olds, the jobless rate is an eye watering 22.3%.
About the eu average then.If I don't reply to your post,
you're probably on my ignore list.0 -
Although it is of course bad, it's only slightly higher than the average for the Euro Area (21.7%), exactly the same as the average percentage for the EU27 (22.3%), and a lot lower than the 49.6% in Spain (November 2011).Graham_Devon wrote: »For 16-24 year olds, the jobless rate is an eye watering 22.3%.There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more...0 -
Nothing to see here ... move along now .......
But, if you really want a balanced view - employment up - rejoice!
We cannot recruit in my Company, not at all - we have been desperately seeking young and old for ages now ....... nothing!
You do need to be highly intelligent, of course, and willing to accept a starting salary around £42,000 .... which is putting a lot of people off, BUT it WILL increase quite quickly once you have proved yourself!Bringing Happiness where there is Gloom!0 -
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worldtraveller wrote: »Although it is of course bad, it's only slightly higher than the average for Europe (21.4%) and a lot lower than the 49.6% in Spain (November 2011).
How many of those in work are only working part time.0 -
Like yourself for instance if you were say 28, single, not wanting to live with anybody else, on say 25k, not much savings as you're now paying off your university debt.
I had to buy with my partner in 1991, what on Earth entitles you to be able to sustain a sinlge income household, where is this written into Human DNA?0
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