Jobless could exceed two million next month

Officials have recently reported that the number of jobless people in the UK could break through the two million barrier when figures are released in February, with figures for the latter part of last year showing that the spate of redundancies in the various sectors had already pushed unemployment levels up to 1.92 million. With a rise of 131,000 unemployed in the latter part of 2008 the figure soared to the highest number of jobless in over ten years. Read more

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