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16th October 2013 #1
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Sharpest fall in 16 yrs number of folks claiming jobless benefits
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LONDON, Oct (KOSDAQ: 039200.KQ - news) 16 (Reuters) - Britain's unemployment rate held steady in the three months to August but the sharpest fall in more than 16 years in the number of people claiming jobless benefits showed the labour market was continuing to heal.
Unemployment was 7.7 percent in the June-August period, unchanged from May-July, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday.
The percentage of people aged 16-64 who are in work rose to 71.7 percent, the highest since the three months to February 2009, the ONS said.
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Does this include the 100s of thousands of immigrants working for £3 an hour ?
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It's all a wee bit confusing. Elsewhere you can read that more people are in employment than ever before which supports the argument that there are to many immigrants here .
Apparently there also 1.5 million people doing part time work because they cant find a full time position which just goes to show we're not a nation of useless benefit scroungers. Some people are prepared to help themselves in difficult times.
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16th October 2013 #9
well its took the Tories over 3yrs to get it upto 71% when it was 74% under labour
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