The hidden unemployed

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Writing in today's Guardian, David Willetts MP, shadow secretary of state for work and pensions, points out that the UK's official unemployment figures are hiding the fact that 7.7 million people of working age appear to be out of the labour force altogether. Who are they and what can we do about it?

Guardian Online | We need new measures to help Labour's invisible unemployed

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Author: Brian Amble
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