Blog posts tagged "Jobs"

March 14, 2012 6:15 pm 6 Comments

Nick Clegg claimed today: "The unemployment of women went up by 24 per cent under Labour". Was he right? FactCheck investigates.

November 16, 2011 4:29 pm 32 Comments

Youth unemployment is now at a record high, and the total number of jobless across the country has risen to 2.62m. Still, the employment minister Chris Grayling appeared to have found reasons for optimism today. He remarked that there were 90,000 vacancies at job centres every week. Sounds good? Time for the FactCheck team to investigate just what's on offer.

November 14, 2011 4:30 pm 21 Comments

The grim news that a "slow, painful contraction" is expected in the jobs market was met with defiance by the DWP. "We always said that the road to recovery would be tough - there is a long way to go until before we deal with all the economic challenges ahead particularly given the crisis in the Eurozone," a spokesman said. The problem is, said the Department, the message isn't getting through that despite the gloom, there are jobs out there. In fact, there are 10,000 new jobs advertised every day at the Jobcentre, they insisted.

July 27, 2011 3:05 pm 10 Comments

A few alarm bells went off in the Channel 4 newsroom yesterday when the Chancellor flagged up jobs growth as the silver lining to some rather gloomy GDP figures. Is growth in the public sector worth shouting about? FactCheck investigates.

October 18, 2010 4:09 pm 5 Comments

FactCheck analyses a letter to the Daily Telegraph, signed by 35 senior businessmen, that says "the private sector should be more than capable of generating additional jobs to replace those lost in the public sector".

May 28, 2010 6:05 pm 10 Comments

David Cameron says over half of all jobs created in the last ten years associated in some way with public spending. Is it right?

April 18, 2010 2:32 pm 4 Comments

Labour's Ed Balls says the Conservatives would make thousands of teachers, teaching assistants and support staff redundant, but is he right? FactCheck finds out.