19% of households with no one in work
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11693308
My maths is poor but if 19% of households in the UK (1 in every 5) has no one in work then that means that UK unemployment would be at least 19% which isnt the case.
What am I missing?
My maths is poor but if 19% of households in the UK (1 in every 5) has no one in work then that means that UK unemployment would be at least 19% which isnt the case.
What am I missing?
kssjp63 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11693308
My maths is poor but if 19% of households in the UK (1 in every 5) has no one in work then that means that UK unemployment would be at least 19% which isnt the case.
What am I missing?
Really? That high? Doubt it.My maths is poor but if 19% of households in the UK (1 in every 5) has no one in work then that means that UK unemployment would be at least 19% which isnt the case.
What am I missing?
Unless they are taking a certain age group of home owners?
what you are missing is:
Students,
Pensioners
Prisoners
Illegals
Tax Dodgers
Hookers
and most importantly
middle class sorts who have no work, but have either savings or assets or private redundancy type insurance so have no need/no benefit for claiming benefits.
working as a contractor for a long time i was never entitled to benefits, since even though i had no work as a company director they still said i was employed.
then there are proud folk who just don't sponge off the state. past 15 years of working life i have had long stretches without work that i just got by, did odd jobs or sold stuff and made ends meet.
i reckon the true unemployed taking into account all the city worker and middle management sorts who will have more than the max savings threshold for benefits is well over 6M.
Students,
Pensioners
Prisoners
Illegals
Tax Dodgers
Hookers
and most importantly
middle class sorts who have no work, but have either savings or assets or private redundancy type insurance so have no need/no benefit for claiming benefits.
working as a contractor for a long time i was never entitled to benefits, since even though i had no work as a company director they still said i was employed.
then there are proud folk who just don't sponge off the state. past 15 years of working life i have had long stretches without work that i just got by, did odd jobs or sold stuff and made ends meet.
i reckon the true unemployed taking into account all the city worker and middle management sorts who will have more than the max savings threshold for benefits is well over 6M.
That Liverpool is highest, doesn’t surprise me at all, whilst there will no doubt be at least one feckless idiot posting the same old stereotypical none sense on here, however the issue is a rather serious one as the cost to the country is huge.
Labour in association with Liverpool City Council, poured millions into the city, it has lots of new student accommodation, spent a large fortune on the 2008 Capital of everyone else’s culture programme, has lots of new shops and bars and acres of some of the nicest stone paving I’ve seen a hard up council use!. . . . . . .however, very little has been done to increase the number of jobs available for "normal" people.
You only have to look at what happened to Camel Lairds (yes I know it’s in Birkenhead) to see that the previous government, was happy to sit on its hands as the traditional industries were killed off by foreign competition, anti competitive bureaucracy and a lack of state support when a simple diplomatic solution, would have saved thousands of jobs..
If you want a chuckle, look at the “investments” made by the North West Development agency . . . . . . with very few exceptions, the businesses will simply not be able to employ the average person from the surrounding area, Liverpool needs investment into its infrastructure, to allow it to reclaim its position as one of, if not the most significant transport hubs for goods manufactured in the UK and for accepting raw materials into it, even if those goods and materials are niche hi value items rather than the more traditional timber, cotton and food.
Labour in association with Liverpool City Council, poured millions into the city, it has lots of new student accommodation, spent a large fortune on the 2008 Capital of everyone else’s culture programme, has lots of new shops and bars and acres of some of the nicest stone paving I’ve seen a hard up council use!. . . . . . .however, very little has been done to increase the number of jobs available for "normal" people.
You only have to look at what happened to Camel Lairds (yes I know it’s in Birkenhead) to see that the previous government, was happy to sit on its hands as the traditional industries were killed off by foreign competition, anti competitive bureaucracy and a lack of state support when a simple diplomatic solution, would have saved thousands of jobs..
If you want a chuckle, look at the “investments” made by the North West Development agency . . . . . . with very few exceptions, the businesses will simply not be able to employ the average person from the surrounding area, Liverpool needs investment into its infrastructure, to allow it to reclaim its position as one of, if not the most significant transport hubs for goods manufactured in the UK and for accepting raw materials into it, even if those goods and materials are niche hi value items rather than the more traditional timber, cotton and food.
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