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The United Kingdom was one of the victors of the Second World War, but victory was costly in social and economic terms. Thus, the late 1940s was a time of austerity and economic restraint, which gave way to prosperity in the 1950s. The Labour Party, led by wartime Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee, won the 1945 post-war general election in ...
Unemployment rate 1881 to 2017 [1] Unemployment in the United Kingdom is measured by the Office for National Statistics. As of February 2024, the U.K. unemployment rate is 3.8%, down from 3.9% in January. [2][3] In the three-month figures (July to September 2022) [4][needs update] the unemployment rate was estimated at 3.6%, which is 0.2 ...
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (2012) 110#1, pp. 33–66. excerpt; Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt. Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) Birdwhistell, Terry L. "Divided We Fall: State College and the Normal School Movement in Kentucky, 1880–1910."
Unemployment was the dominant issue of British society during the interwar years. [1] Unemployment levels rarely dipped below 1,000,000 and reached a peak of more than 3,000,000 in 1933, a figure which represented more than 20% of the working population. The unemployment rate was even higher in areas including South Wales and Liverpool. [1]
The UK's unemployment rate has fallen slightly, official figures show. Unemployment was 4.2% in the three months to the end of June, down from 4.4% over the previous quarter.
This November, Kentuckians will vote on Amendment 2, which would allow public money to be spent on private schools, most likely through school vouchers. If this amendment passes, Kentucky’s ...
Unemployment had stood at less than 1.8 million at the end of 1930, but by the end of 1931 it had risen sharply to more than 2.6 million. [193] By January 1933, more than 3 million Britons were unemployed, accounting for more than 20% of the workforce - with unemployment topping 50% in some parts of the country, particularly in South Wales and ...
Statistics for June 2010 show that there are 926,000 young people under the age of 25 who are unemployed which equates to an unemployment rate of 19.6% among young people. [2] This is the highest youth unemployment rate in 17 years. [3] In November 2011 youth unemployment hit 1.02 million, [4] but had fallen to 767,000 by August 2014. [5]