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Figures show unemployment has now risen to more than 2.1 million, the highest level seen under the current government. [citation needed] Magnified image of the H1NI flu virus, origin of a pandemic. 27 April – 2009 swine flu pandemic: The pandemic H1N1/09 virus originating in Mexico spreads to the UK, with 2 cases confirmed in Scotland. 29 April
In Q3 2016, there were 28.39 million UK nationals aged 16 and over employed in the UK, up 213,000 on a year ago. 74.9% of all UK nationals aged 16–64 were in employment. The number of non-UK nationals working in the UK has also increased in the past year by 241,000 to 3.49 million. 72.8% of non-UK nationals aged 16–64 living in the UK were ...
Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force (the total number of people employed added to those unemployed). [3] Unemployment can have many sources, such as the following: the status of the economy, which can be influenced by a recession
True, that is a brutally painful unemployment figure. To. The unemployment rate now stands at 9.8 percent, we learned Friday morning and, to quote Claude Raines in Casablanca, the market was ...
The hope that unemployment in the largest nations will peak at 8 percent or even 9 percent appears to be going away. That means that even the currently planned stimulus packages in places like the ...
According to recent reports, the unemployment rate fell from 10.2% to 10%. But is unemployment really falling? Although it seems like toting up the numbers should be fairly straightforward, it ...
2009–10 in English football ... despite rising unemployment in the UK. ... which resulted in a pandemic.
In December 2009, it was revealed that the UK's unemployment total stood at almost 2.5 million – another monthly rise and the highest level for 15 years – but the number of people claiming unemployment benefit had actually fallen by more than 6,000. By this stage, the UK was one of the last major economies still in recession. [105]