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Labour market: Britain’s jobs success is vulnerable to further austerity
Real earnings are increasing but are too dependent on low inflation
Unemployment down 35,000 to 1.83m
Unemployment decreased by 35,000 in the three months to March
Unemployment down 76,000 to 1.84m
Unemployment decreased by 76,000 in the three months to February 2015 to 1.84 million, with the unemployment rate now at 5.6 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal
Unemployment down 102,000 to 1.86 million
Unemployment decreased by 102,000 in the three months to January 2015
Rising insecurity at work as zero hours contracts jump 111,000
2.3 per cent of people in employment surveyed between October and December 2014 were on a zero-hours contract
Labour market: Young people are the furthest from benefiting from this recovery
And getting back to pre-recession wages is going to take an awfully long time