Isn't unemployment currently at a 42 year low?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 13:33,
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Nope, not at all.
The problem with the official rate is that it falls if an unemployed worker hasn’t sought a job in the past four weeks or can’t start one in the next fortnight. Once they stop seeking work, fewer people are classed as unemployed but no jobs have been created.
So you're right in that this government are the best so far at redefining what being unemployed means. I know people aren't keen on links to "left wing" sources, so I'm just using right wing ones or academia.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2016/03/hidden-truth-behind-george-osborne-s-record-jobs
www4.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/news/real-level-unemployment-almost-35million-new-report
uk.businessinsider.com/unemployment-in-the-uk-is-now-so-low-its-in-danger-of-exposing-the-lie-used-to-create-the-numbers-2017-7
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DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Wed 13 Sep 2017, 14:05,
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