Sentences with phrase «unemployed people on»

Some of the biggest firms running the government's welfare - to - work scheme have been penalised for poor performance after it was revealed almost eight out of 10 unemployed people on the programme for two years had failed to get a proper job.

When Osborne spoke about «shirkers» we knew he didn't mean the middle class kids living off their rich parents, he meant unemployed people on estates.

Labour frequently accused the Conservatives during the 1980s of moving unemployed people on to sickness benefits - classifying them as economically inactive rather than unemployed - as a strategy for cutting the unemployment figure.

Not exact matches

«There were 1.49 million unemployed people (people not in work but seeking and available to work), 64,000 fewer than for December 2016 to February 2017 and 152,000 fewer than for a year earlier,» the ONS added.

There were 1.42 million unemployed people in the UK over the period, according to the ONS, 16,000 fewer than September to November 2017.

People who want to work have become dependent on government assistance — as evidenced by the huge battle over the decision to not extend benefits to the long - term unemployed.

The data shows that if a young person is unemployed for more than a year it affects their trajectory over their whole life course, says Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation president, discussing the foundation's initiative on developing youth employment.

On top of the 9.7 million people the government counts as unemployed, an additional 9.7 million either want a job or would like more hours.

The man accused of carrying out a three - week bombing spree that killed two people in Texas before blowing himself up as police closed in on him was a 23 - year - old unemployed man from suburban Austin, authorities said.

Young people also can no longer rely on the luxury of a social safety net — so it's no wonder they stay unemployed for shorter amounts of time or stay in their jobs for longer periods.

Treasury awarded funding to 47 states, the District of Columbia, 5 U.S. Territories, and municipalities in 3 states, based on their proportion of unemployed persons as a percentage of the national total.

One is a world in which our economic problems are largely solved, profits are on the mend, and things will soon be back to normal, except for a lot of unemployed people whose fate is, let's face it, of no concern to Wall Street.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

I know lots of people who became unemployed this year — from 3 of my neighbors (one on either side of me and one 2 doors down) to a friend who is a State worker to several teachers.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

Thus the unemployed person develops a feeling of powerlessness that becomes a fiercer foe as time wears on.

Its covert purpose seems to be to exclude the «undeserving poor» from «handouts,» for it is based on the implicit assumption that chronically unemployed people who are neither disabled nor aged are able to find work.

I would establish a six - month hiatus tax - free to allow that money to be repatriated — the only requirement being that 10 percent of it has to be used in enterprise zones and to create jobs for people who are unemployed and on welfare.

Being unemployed has this horrible effect on people.

We need dignified work for all so that no able - bodied person need ever be unemployed and rendered dependent on welfare or charity.

His remarks were greeted with applause by the Tory faithful, but Tebbit was later mocked for apparently having told unemployed people to simply «get on your bike»

One possibility would be to give right to vote only to people who are not dependent on government (so unemployed people and people in retirement can not vote themselves better benefits paid by others).

Lawyers acting on behalf of the secretary of state argued that unpaid carers should be treated as unemployed people who should make the same decisions as anyone else about living costs.

It will aim to help not just people who are temporarily out of work, but those who are long - term unemployed - the almost five million people on out of work benefits, including those on long - term sickness benefits.

If more people were able to find jobs, then less money would need to be spent on support for unemployed people, because there would be fewer of them.

«They've cut hundreds of thousands of job and training places for the unemployed so what they're doing is pushing people onto the dole and that means there's going to be more people on benefits, not less, as a result of their proposals.»

(It seems likely that the main rise in public spending and reduction of tax revenue over the 2008 - present period has been due to economic contraction rather than policy change - unemployed people claim benefits, don't pay tax on wages and pay much less VAT on purchases.

Mr Miliband told Labour's youth conference on jobs in Warwick that a Labour Budget would introduce a bank bonus tax which would pay the wages of unemployed people.

So building on the success of Labour's Future Jobs Fund — so short - sightedly scrapped by this government — we will introduce a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee for young people and the long - term unemployed.

While we wait on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo's government to make available a database of unemployed people he promised, we can only imagine that the statistics quoted by Dr. Bawumia two years ag has doubled.

As I wrote in my article Beating the Welfare Bigots published on Liberal Left, the whole idea of «unemployed» people «working for their benefits» is dangerous double - think, creating a sub-category of community servants that are excluded from the minimum wage.

Given that, will the Minister consider reducing that time and allowing people who have been unemployed for less than six months to go on to the scheme?»

In a bid to make it easier for the long - term unemployed to find work, Ms Flint proposed opening job centres on council estates, arguing this made more sense than forcing people to travel «miles» to access services.

Back to work A groundbreaking report shows that each year small and medium sized businesses take on around 1.3 million unemployed and disadvantaged people.

Small businesses are more likely than big firms to take on people that have been unemployed in the past 12 months, which could prove vital as public sector cuts really start to bite.

Recent claims by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith that people in Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales should «get on the bus» to Cardiff to find work were immediately debunked by PCS, which pointed out that for every job vacancy in the city there were nine unemployed people.

They take on young people, operate apprenticeships and training schemes and often recruit unemployed or disabled staff through job centres.

The employment minister has called on unemployed people to gain more experience of the world of work — by taking seasonal jobs as Father Christmas or elves.

The employment minister has called on unemployed people to gain more experience of the world of...

Yet a groundbreaking report shows that each year small and medium sized businesses take on around 1.3 million unemployed and disadvantaged people.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced a free training program designed to provide as many as ten persons with construction experience who are currently unemployed the necessary skills to work on pre-1978 built houses that... Read more

Osborne's comments, indicating that people with their blinds drawn are probably sleeping on benefits, are totally shameful and could lead to unemployed people (or even working people who have curtains or blinds drawn for other reasons) being targeted by anti-social neighbours.

This is a huge tax hike on jobs, that will put many more people out of work and condemn the unemployed to continued joblessness.

The most recent British social attitudes survey has found that 80 % of people believe the government should be responsible for ensuring that the long - term sick or disabled have enough to live on — much higher than the proportion of people who believe the government should ensure people have enough money to live on in retirement or if they are unemployed.

Renovator Training Supports Local Employment «Joint Initiative Partners MVCC, LPP and Workforce Development» Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced a free training program designed to provide as many as ten persons with construction experience who are currently unemployed the necessary skills to work on pre-1978 built houses that may have lead - based paints.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

That is to do with a sense that the public at large are in favour of these welfare reforms, so what a good opportunity some people on this side see to attack the unemployed.

In effect, the government is cutting these firms» potential profits as the companies are paid for each unemployed person they take on, then for getting them into work and finally for keeping them in work.

Could have convinced the party that blue Labours view on Immigration and socially conservative views on communities such as religion, working with the state to subsidise locally run charities, was something, that could bring into our party working class people not already connected, by the groups associated with our movements (Trade unions, the Co-op, retired union affiliates) after the disaster of the World cup, owl gate and then the Ill prepared speech at the IPFF on social change and trying to deflect attention from it by rushing out the «well make unemployed teenagers work for their dole» plan, it's hard to see us being able to be taken serious on welfare reform.

This programme, with 10 regional training centres, has already recruited 3,000 young, unemployed people, to undergo a 3 - month all - expenses - paid training,» President Akufo - Addo said during his second State of the Nation Address on Thursday.