Unemployment Rate

  • BusinessAOL

    Huge increase in employment total

    The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance has fallen to a near two-year low after a huge increase in employment, new figures show. Almost 30 million people were in work at the end of 2012, an increase of 154,000 on the quarter to

  • LifestyleAOL

    Shame on Coventry as 20 jobs sit vacant while 10,000 are unemployed

    The experience of one business looking for 20 new staff in Coventry tells us all we need to know about our cushy benefits culture. Because in a city with more than 10,000 people unemployed, only two people have applied for the posts in the two