Redwurzel
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This is an interesting article on the employment market in areas like Barnsley.
Barnsley has an unemployment rate of only 3% but around 26% inactivity rate (people not working aged 18-64). There is obviously some hidden unemployment in the 26%. If the UK average is 21% its not impossible to say the real rate of unemployment is 5% plus 3% = 8%.
Commentators say the UK hasn't an unemployment issue, but there surely is in the left behind areas of the UK. It is probably well hidden, say compared with the early 1980s.
Barnsley has an unemployment rate of only 3% but around 26% inactivity rate (people not working aged 18-64). There is obviously some hidden unemployment in the 26%. If the UK average is 21% its not impossible to say the real rate of unemployment is 5% plus 3% = 8%.
Commentators say the UK hasn't an unemployment issue, but there surely is in the left behind areas of the UK. It is probably well hidden, say compared with the early 1980s.
Miners' strike: Coal towns falling further behind - charity
A BBC poll finds 73% of people in coalfield communities have seen little progress on levelling up.
www.bbc.co.uk
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