Unemployment 4.2%

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jun 17 12:20:33 PDT 1999


Chris Burford wrote:


>Today the UK government announces the lowest unemployment figures since
>1980. Should we be pleased? Or worried?

The UK employment figures are a joke, no? Didn't Thatcher change the definition something like 30 times to make them look lower? They're based on benefit registrations and not a household survey, right?

Doug



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