Unemployment figures continue to remain unbalanced

Recent research has shown that the UK’s unemployed and unemployable still appear to focus both geographically and socially on the country’s most deprived areas. Fears in government circles are that this trend is likely continue into a viscous circle, seriously threatening to undermine the government’s recent drive against poverty.

Data gathered since the recession was officially declared at the beginning of the year presents a worrying picture, indicating that the effects of unemployment is focusing on unskilled low-income workers in the Midlands and the north of England.

Any signs of to growth nationally in both manufacturing and services are only being shown in regions and socio-economic sectors of the UK population who fall into neither of these categories, a viscous circle that seems likely o continue for the foreseeable future. When looking at an overall picture, the most deprived areas of the UK continue to show disproportionately higher increases in unemployment, with 580 per cent increases in new claimants than from the same period last year.

Unemployment in the UK, currently sitting at around two and quarter million is forecasted to continue to rise for several months, and may even reach three million by the end of this year

Officials from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) are facing the situation with considerable concern with Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary predicting that even when the economy begins to recover, it would take years before the unskilled or semi-skilled jobless would begin to feel any benefit.

Barber emphasized “Tackling unemployment must remain the government’s number one priority,” “Getting people back into work and into jobs with decent pay will not only benefit the more than two million people currently out of work but also the economy , by generating the spending boost it needs.”

The heaviest concentrations of deprivation tend to be in the north – particularly the north-east – although levels of unemployment in London remains substantial, although a closer look at the statistics show that the highest levels can be found in the traditional poorer districts of the capital Liverpool bears the unwelcome distinction of being the city with the highest average levels of unemployment and poverty.

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