December 12, 2012 • While the storm did not influence the nation's
jobless figures as much as expected, there are still thousands of people who are unemployed in Sandy's wake.
«What is of real concern for the future is that many forecasters are expecting
the jobless figures to soar during 2012, peaking in 2013.
Commenting on the latest
jobless figures and the news that youth unemployment has crossed the one million mark, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «These shocking figures on youth unemployment come at a time when the Government is inflicting severe cuts on 16 - 19 education.
By naively swallowing the OBR's last - minute PR exercise, he will crucified month after month as
the jobless figures rise, as they inexorably will, past 3m and quite likely past 3.5 m.
The statistics, released by the Office of National Statistics [ONS], reveal that
jobless figures shot up by 114,000 to 2.57 million between June and August this year.
Commenting on the latest
jobless figures and the news that youth unemployment has crossed the one million mark, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:
Not exact matches
Roughly 80 % of startup owners have voluntarily left the cubicle and are pouring their energies into their own businesses, a much higher
figure than during the
jobless recoveries of the 1990s and 2000s, writes economist Benjamin Tal in a recent CIBC report.
The Department of Labor reported that Initial
jobless claims at 367,000 increased 8,000 from the prior week's unrevised
figure.
The state's
jobless rate had been at 4.1 percent since November, mirroring the national
figure until last month, when the U.S. rate held steady as Maryland's edged up.
The state's
jobless rate had been at 4.1 percent since November, mirroring the national
figure until last month, when the U.S. rate held steady...
Turning to today's economic calendar, Eurozone trade data will be released along with a string of US reports including initial
jobless claims and manufacturing
figures.
Given how often the stereotype of the feral
jobless teenager, fathering a tribe of offspring with different women,
figures in the media, it is perhaps surprising that no statistics are kept on the number of «young fathers» — classified as anyone becoming a dad under the age of 24, and often much younger.
In fact, there is a significant proportion of disability benefit claimants who should be on unemployment benefit, and therefore the
figure of the
jobless is substantially higher if not for the shunting of these people onto the sickness register mainly because of the higher levels of benefit.
New
figures released by the state Department of Labor shows that Rockland's unemployment rate of 4 percent puts Rockland among the 10 lowest
jobless rates in New York.
- The latest unemployment
figures were published, showing the number of UK
jobless has risen for the first time in two years
Simply because the headline
figures measure the stock of
jobless people.
The behavior of the incoming president would have rendered a schoolteacher, or any other public or private sector
figure,
jobless.
New
figures Thursday from the Arizona Department of Commerce put the
jobless rate for October at 9.5 percent on a seasonally... Continue reading >>