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What can be done to curb rising unemployment?

What can be done to curb rising unemployment?
Unemployment has surged past two million for the first time in 12 years, while the number of people signing on for benefit soared by a record 138,000 last month.

The Government has been hit by a raft of gloomy news, with redundancies reaching a record high, jobs and vacancies falling and more people claiming jobseeker's allowance.

The total number of people out of work, including those not eligible for benefit, jumped by 165,000 in the quarter to January to 2.03 million, the worst figure since Labour came to power in 1997.

The TUC warned this week that there is now an average of 10 jobseekers for every vacancy in the UK, rising to 60 for the worst-affected areas in the south east of England.

What can be done to curb the rising number of people facing unemployment? Is the government doing enough to help the unemployed get back into work? Is your job currently under threat? Are you unemployed and currently looking for work? Do you feel let-down by the government or are you optimistic that the job market will recover?


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Added: 18 March 2009 22:02
john says:
foreigners,,dont blame them no blame the shower of shiiittt who let them in with out asking the people,,eleven thousand estimated would come ..3 million later not even a sorry... 90 % unskilled,,, hope youv a nice cushy life anon,,, smell the coffe mate yet another factory shutting in bristol moving to where i wonder da poland,,,skill up the cheek of u mate,, you r very much a minority pal
Added: 18 March 2009 19:41
Tom Norton says:
Resign.
Added: 18 March 2009 18:25
Ally M says:
We need this goverment to bring in a law that cancels all mortgages and the banks or finance houses just take a admin fee which can be no more than £50 per month ,Houses then become assets only for family members and can not be sold for profit and greed. Capitalism has not worked and even after years of trying to sort this present problem out it will all happen again in 15 years or so, as it has over the passed ,again and again. Its time for the people to make change ! why should you pay back three times the amount borrowed on a Mortgage/Loan we are all being robbed blind and we put up with this without complaint. This country can take a lead on this to the world and make it a better place to live.
The banks have abused there power over everyone the last 30 years and after trading with our money and having lost they now come to us the tax payer for a bail out. Well if thats the case why not all the people who have lost there jobs or taken a risk in getting bigger house and taken on more debt but now find themselves unable to pay back what they owe lets cancel the debt you owe nothing you dont lose your house your car or anything else.... Yes its the same as what we have done for the banks nothing different ! The only people who do not want these changes are the people in power at the banks and government because they are only in it for power and greed looking after there bank balance. We have been taken for fools for far to long .........lets do something about it for us our children and there children, we can make change !
Added: 18 March 2009 14:51
Anon says:
Yet again, we read the facile 'get rid of foreigners' line. Immigration into the UK is in the main from EU countries. These are not people any government within the EU can 'send back'. Where do they go? They're in the EU when they're here! Pull yourselves together, skill up, work harder and smarter and stop whining about immigration.
Added: 18 March 2009 13:40
s pattinson says:
get rid of this usless PM and his self centered government and put people who know what is like in the real world into power. They still have there jobs and expense accounts and other perks, they could use that money to invest in our countrys fine industry. They can also stop bailing the banks out with the tax payers money and put that into employment and stop the directors having stupid bonuses for making a shambbles of everything
Added: 18 March 2009 08:39
Rowan says:
The main drive of industry has been to increase efficiency and reduce jobs for the last 30 years. most small farms can be run by one person. most service industries such as banking and insurance can be computerised and automated almost to the limit ie no people required just intellegent interactive software and extreemly high processing capacity. This arguement can be applied to most industries. Couple the above with the availability of cheap land and construction in certain countries and it is clear that as soon as a plant such as automotive is closed in a place such as the uk it will never be rebuit again. The obvious answer to an industrialist is a supersized, super-efficient facility that can alone output a significant percentage of world requirement. The uk goverment certainly is aware of this situation. Ultimately it would appear that the only way forward if we require massive and increaing population is to fabricate work. otherwise idle hands......
Added: 18 March 2009 08:29
mw, brigg says:
Here's an idea, but the govt would need to invest a little to kickstart it.
Driver Education Centres. The on-going training of older drivers and the introduction of training log books, perhaps linked to insurance premium reductions.
The obvious place to re-launch advanced driver schemes and a place for reduction of traffic offences.
Lets improve the standard of our driving. It could be made interesting with films, lectures, seminars and workshops. Also, off-road training centres.
Added: 17 March 2009 16:22
Harry L says:
The government need to do more, retraining is not enough of an action if the jobs aren't there, it needs to create and push markets.

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