Concern as jobless total hits 14-year high; ECONOMY TODAY: EMPLOYMENT.UNIONS and employers reacted with "alarm" after unemployment surged to a 14-year high, prompting fresh calls for Government help for the growing army of jobless. The total now stands at 2.47 million following a 210,000 rise in the three months to July, while the numbers claiming jobseeker's allowance jobseeker's allowance Noun (in Britain) a social-security payment for unemployed people rose by 24,400 to 1.61 million in August - the highest since May 1997 and the 18th monthly rise in a row. The recession's impact on young people was also underlined by jobless totals among 16 to 24-year-olds reaching 947,000 - the highest level since Office for National Statistics (ONS ONS Office for National Statistics (UK) ONS One Night Stand ONS Onslaught (Unreal Tournament 2004) ONS Oncology Nursing Society ONS Object Naming Service ONS Offshore Northern Seas ) records began in 1992. |
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