employment
How likely is 10% unemployment?
It will take just 660,000 further job losses to bring the UK to 10% unemployment; we are much closer to the ‘1 in 10’ unemployment disaster than you might think.
The bad news in yesterday’s employment stats (and it’s not about migration)
The claim that migrants are disproportionately accessing jobs in Britain compared to workers of UK nationality is based on a simple misreading of the statistics.
Boris can take the lead on entry-level jobs for the young unemployed
The Mayor of London should explain what he is doing to provide entry-level jobs for young people locked out of the workforce. The scale of the problem is huge.
Are the employment figures about to get worse?
The headline employment and unemployment figures may be about to take a turn for the worse, writes Richard Exell, Senior Policy Officer at the TUC.
Female unemployment highest for 15 years; outlook bleak
While the headline numbers in today’s labour market data release from the Office for National Statistics were largely positive, there were some worrying undercurrents.
The High Street spiral of self-harm
Ann Pettifor reports on the latest grim news from the high street today, and outlines possible solutions to the downturn.