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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.
Jobs stats no cause for celebration – things could, and should, be an awful lot better
Today's labour market stats are no cause for celebration - things could be, and should be, an awful lot better.
Unemployment down 50,000 to 2.53 million; employment up to nearly 30 million
Unemployment is down 50,000 to 2.53 million, with employment up to nearly 30 million, reports Shamik Das.
Labour market stats: Underneath the good news…
Richard Exell delves behind the headline unemployment figures and takes a deeper look at the latest September 2012 labour market statistics.
Headline unemployment figure down 7,000 to 2.59 million
The unemployment rate fell 0.1 per cent on the quarter to 8.1%, with the number of people out of work down 7,000 to 2.59 million in the three months to July.
Time for our leaders to face up to the facts: Austerity is killing jobs and the recovery
It’s time our leaders faced up to the facts: austerity is killing jobs and no amount of discussion on reforming employment policy will disguise that basic fact.