Blog posts tagged "Unemployment"

April 17, 2012 12:29 pm 3 Comments

"The IPPR actually thinks the figures show the reverse of what Mr Grayling wants them to show."

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.

March 7, 2012 5:13 pm 11 Comments

The Labour leader said there are five people for every vacant job in Dartford, where the Howes family live. Was he right? And how does the competition measure up in the rest of the country? FactCheck investigates.

March 6, 2012 5:31 pm 21 Comments

"Some people will be antagonised by any discussion of the fact that spiralling unemployment is hitting black people the hardest", Diane Abbott wrote in today's Guardian. And rightly so. But some people will be further antagonised by the possibility that Britain's first black female MP may have got her facts wrong. Has she? FactCheck investigates.

March 5, 2012 5:48 pm 11 Comments

The firm might have expected its promise to create 20,000 jobs over the next two years to be enthusiastically endorsed - or at least, to borrow from its own slogan, to be embraced with the verdict "every little helps". But few are prepared to take what Tesco says on trust. Do these figures strip out jobs lost? Are they full-time posts? Over to the team.

February 24, 2012 1:28 pm 33 Comments

"Much like the French Foreign Legion, the scheme is "entirely voluntary" to enter, but there may be an element of compulsion later on if you decide to leave."

February 22, 2012 5:56 pm 3 Comments

Youth unemployment sailed past the million mark last month with much furore, prompting the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to wade into the waters with some perspective. FactCheck takes a look at the findings.

January 25, 2012 4:49 pm 18 Comments

Are there more people in work today than there were at the time of the last election as David Cameron claims? Channel 4 News FactCheck finds out.

January 18, 2012 7:30 pm 5 Comments

"If this was a boxing match, we'd give Mr Cameron a narrow win on points."

December 14, 2011 4:04 pm 13 Comments

Mr Miliband reminded MPs of the Chancellor's optimistic assessment at the time of the spending review in November last year. George Osborne said at the time that private sector job creation would "far outweigh" cuts in public sector employment. But have those high hopes - based on forecasts from the independent Office of Budget Responsibility, been dashed?