labour market stats
Unemployment down 48,000 to 2.47 million
Unemployment decreased by 48,000 between July 2013 and September 2013 to 2.47 million, with the unemployment rate now at 7.6 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
Employment rate up again, unemployment rate down below 8%
Employment is up more than half a million on a year ago, with unemployment down more than 100,000 in the past 12 months, the latest labour market stats reveal.
Without a Plan B, the record unemployment figures look set to get worse
Without a plan B, it seems likely all this month’s grim jobs stats and record bad figures are likely to be replaced by new ones, writes the TUC’s Richard Exell.