Job market slows as unemployment rises

  The second quarter of 2008 saw a 60,000 rise in the jobless total, taking the UK unemployment figure to 1.67m, while in July the number of people claiming jobless benefits rose again (for the sixth month in succession) by just over 20,000 to 846,700. Deutsche Bank economist George Buckley said the labour market was...

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

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