Cyclone Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Yes 16 million is a more accurate figure. If you count people not in a job, students, people on government training courses, kids at college, people on incapacity, immigrants, people with drug and alcohol addictions, the figure would probably be closer to 16 million And if you add the people who recieve in work benefits such as tax credits (because there wages are so low, they could not pay for th basics) then the figure would be even higher. The amount of people in work who do not receive any benefits must be pretty low His assertion was that it had quadrupled from 4 million when he left school though, I doubt he was quoting 4 million as including all those people... Yep, 1981 he said, and the words were on the dole. So he's wrong, there are not now four times as many people claiming JSA as there were claiming in 1981... http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/unemployment-rate In fact he couldn't be more wrong, unemployment is lower now than in the early 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 His assertion was that it had quadrupled from 4 million when he left school though, I doubt he was quoting 4 million as including all those people... Yep, 1981 he said, and the words were on the dole. So he's wrong, there are not now four times as many people claiming JSA as there were claiming in 1981... http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/unemployment-rate In fact he couldn't be more wrong, unemployment is lower now than in the early 80's. Look,you're making the mistake of letting facts get in the way of a moan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 It's a bad habit of mine, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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