Unemployment Falls
Issue- Figures out today reveal a drop in unemployment.
Key points
- The action we are taking is working. The Tories would cut support to the economy now - choking off recovery and putting more people out of work.
- Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper said:
"The jobs market is still tough for a lot of people, but the drop in unemployment and youth unemployment is very welcome. It means 450,000 fewer people are out of work than everyone expected last spring."
- We've made the right choices - helping people into work through our guarantees to young people and expanding support from Jobcentre Plus. The rate of job losses in this recession has been four times less than if the experience of the 1990s had been repeated.
- Today's figures published by ONS Statistics show a 7,000 drop in the ILO measure of unemployment, a 15,000 drop in the claimant count and a 7,600 drop in the youth claimant count in December.
- Unemployment is still expected to rise again before the summer - but the Tories refuse to support our action and they threaten to choke off recovery by cutting support to the economy now.
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