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Unemployment Falls By 5,000 As Youth Jobless Rate Drops

PA | Posted 12.06.2013 | UK

The number of over-65s in a job has reached a record one million, new figures revealed today. Unemployment has fallen by 5,000 to 2.5 million and the...

Unemployment Falls To Lowest Level In A Year After Olympics Boost

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 14.10.2012 | UK

Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level for a year after a big jump in the number of people in work, new figures showed today. The jobless tota...

Scrapping Voluntary Work Experience Would Have Removed a Valuable Lifeline for Young People

Anne Marie Carrie | Posted 30.04.2012 | UK
Anne Marie Carrie

Helping young people to gain the skills, experience and qualifications needed for employment has always been a priority for Barnardo's.

Dear Unemployed: Please Start Building Pyramids

Greg Jenner | Posted 28.04.2012 | UK Comedy
Greg Jenner

There's been a lot of outrage recently in the press. Being a pedant, this always makes me chuckle, mostly because the medieval word 'outrage' originally meant a gratuitous excess of criminal violence.