Sentences with phrase «term joblessness»

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General secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the unemployment figures published in July 2012, describing them as «excellent news», but he pointed out that long - term youth joblessness was up by 18,000 on the quarter to 421,000, and urged the government to prioritise tackling long - term youth unemployment.

The consequences to their future — in terms of lower wages, joblessness, the risk of incarceration, the obstacles to an economically secure future — are tragic.