UK unemployment hits four-year high, new data reveals

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/uk-unemployment-rise-average-earnings-fall-5HjdFKm_2/

by StGuthlac2025

8 comments

  2. *“We see different patterns across the age ranges with record numbers of over-65s in work, while the increase in unemployment was driven mostly by younger people.*

    Boomers now not even letting young people prop up their Triple Lock lol.

    If you want a job doing then do it yourself.

  3. I know a way around this. Tax all the people that work some more eh

  4. Just had to increase employee ni instead of employer. Was a crazy decision

  5. Is there any way we can separate these figures so we can see how the figures vary between the public sector and the private sector?

    I have a feeling the government is hiring speedily while the private sector is shedding rapidly and the difference is being masked by these combined net figures.

  6. Not surprising really, loads of companies have been “restructuring” lately. Basically means they’re hiring fewer people and squeezing more work out of whoever’s left

  7. I honestly think this shitty government want as many unemployed people as possible, so they can keep dishing out money to them!

  8. I had a look at the stats just yesterday, for an assignment I’m writing. The underlying trend is worrisome and lower levels of unemployment were beginning to flatten out and trend upwards again even without Covid being taken into account in 2020.

    We’re nowhere near the historic highs of the 70s & 80s, but full employment is still a long way off and we’re trending in the wrong direction.

    When you consider how Britain doesn’t have a specialist industry anymore, and everything seems to just circle around the service industries, it’s hard to see a way to grow the economy in a way that will lift employment levels longer term.

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