Watchman Alfrescian Loyal Joined Mar 12, 2009 Messages 13,160 Points 0 Nov 12, 2009 #1 Eight million have no job (and don't even want one) By Becky Barrow Last updated at 12:10 AM on 12th November 2009 Struggling: The number of 18 to 24-year-olds visiting job centres, like above, is rising as 943,000 people in this age group are out of work - a rate of 19.8 per cent 'It is shocking that one in five people of working age is economically inactive and that five million people have never worked under this government. 'Labour's decision to duck the real challenge of welfare reform over the past decade has fuelled this alarming trend.' There are seven groups of economic inactivity - students, looking after family/home, temporary sick, long-term sick, discouraged, retired or 'other.' The number of people who do not have a job - and are not bothering to look for one - has soared to its highest since records began in 1971. A record 7.9million - one in five people of working age - are ' economically inactive'. That is more than the entire population of Greater London. Tories called the figures from the Office for National Statistics ' shocking' and said they exposed an ' alarming trend'. Theresa May, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: 'A culture of worklessness has become rife in pockets of Brown's Britain.
Eight million have no job (and don't even want one) By Becky Barrow Last updated at 12:10 AM on 12th November 2009 Struggling: The number of 18 to 24-year-olds visiting job centres, like above, is rising as 943,000 people in this age group are out of work - a rate of 19.8 per cent 'It is shocking that one in five people of working age is economically inactive and that five million people have never worked under this government. 'Labour's decision to duck the real challenge of welfare reform over the past decade has fuelled this alarming trend.' There are seven groups of economic inactivity - students, looking after family/home, temporary sick, long-term sick, discouraged, retired or 'other.' The number of people who do not have a job - and are not bothering to look for one - has soared to its highest since records began in 1971. A record 7.9million - one in five people of working age - are ' economically inactive'. That is more than the entire population of Greater London. Tories called the figures from the Office for National Statistics ' shocking' and said they exposed an ' alarming trend'. Theresa May, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said: 'A culture of worklessness has become rife in pockets of Brown's Britain.
