Unemployment ‘worst since 1997’

In the three months to the end of February, the number of people out of work increased by 177,000 to 2.1m - the biggest quarterly rise since 1991, and a higher total than when Labour came into power in May 1997. The claimant count (the number of people seeking jobseeker's allowance) also rose by 73,700 to 1.46m, the highest total since...

Friday, 24 April 2009

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Unemployment ‘worst since 1997’

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