Anna B Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Many of the new jobs are part time and don't provide a living wage. They do however skew the unemployment figures downwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Many of the new jobs are part time and don't provide a living wage. They do however skew the unemployment figures downwards. As it did between 1997 and 2010. Despite part time jobs accounting for around 1/3 of jobs by 2010, and an increase of almost a million working in the public sector, unemployment was still higher in May 2010 than it had been when Tony Blair took office in 1997. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Many of the new jobs are part time and don't provide a living wage. They do however skew the unemployment figures downwards. 14 July 2010 The ONS said the percentage of workers in part-time jobs was 27%, its highest since records began in 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 14 July 2010 The ONS said the percentage of workers in part-time jobs was 27%, its highest since records began in 1992. That's the point he's making, there is a rise in low paid part-time jobs but not in better paid full-time jobs, if you can get your head around that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acman Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 A lot of the calculating for costs were done with oil at around $65-70 per barrel, but oil at $90-100 per barrel, is throwing everything out, George has a big problem her no doubt, sadly he has no answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 A lot of the calculating for costs were done with oil at around $65-70 per barrel, but oil at $90-100 per barrel, is throwing everything out, George has a big problem her no doubt, sadly he has no answers. And yet the UK is still doing better than the Eurozone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 And yet the UK is still doing better than the Eurozone. It was a truly inspired decision by Gordon Brown to keep us out of the Eurozone, I agree with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricgem2002 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 And yet the UK is still doing better than the Eurozone. remind us again how much we pay to not be in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSmith Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 That's the point he's making, there is a rise in low paid part-time jobs but not in better paid full-time jobs, if you can get your head around that! This is the point who’s making? And get my head round what? If it’s the fact that part time jobs increased under the last government, I know, that why I posted the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wednesday1 Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 This is the point who’s making? And get my head round what? If it’s the fact that part time jobs increased under the last government, I know, that why I posted the link. Jackanory tells the story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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