Economy

Ghost Dog

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7. UK unemployment remains high

Fri Mar 16, 2012, 05:37 AM

Mar 2012

According to the British Office for National Statistics (ONS) the jobless rate remains at its highest rate in 16 years, as UK unemployment rose by 28,000 in the past three months to January. The current unemployment rate is 8.4%.

Unemployment rose by 28,000 to 2.67 million during the three months to the end of January, the highest total since 1995, while youth unemployment rose 16,000 to 1.04m.

The number of people working part-time hit 1.48m, the highest since current records began and the total number of jobs lost during 2011 in public sector was 270,000.

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