Blog posts tagged "Unemployment"

April 18, 2012 12:40 pm 4 Comments

Today's figures show an unexpected welcome fall in unemployment, youth unemployment, and a small rise in the claimant count - over the next few months C4 News will continue telling the story of jobs in Britain with a series of reports for the Channel 4 Jobs Report (#c4jobs).

January 22, 2012 2:02 pm 21 Comments

Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam blogs on the Cabinet and the "snooty so-and-sos" refusing to work for free at Poundland.

January 18, 2012 12:36 pm 13 Comments

History shows that when unemployment reaches today's level it has always shot much higher, reports Economics Editor Faisal Islam.

November 16, 2011 11:11 am 12 Comments

It has been pretty clear that these figures reflect existing weakness, not a crisis that exploded in July/August.

September 14, 2011 4:45 pm 10 Comments

Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards - Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.

April 13, 2011 7:41 pm 1 Comment

Faisal Islam visits the Longbridge plant where ground breaking new manufacturing techniques have reinvigorated the famous car factory, but even this has only created one job for a 16-24 year old age bracket on a day that unemployment dropped overall but rose yet again for the UK youth sector.

April 21, 2010 9:26 pm No Comments

Faisal Islam blogs on the rise in unemployment to over 2.5m just two weeks ahead of the general election.

December 16, 2009 11:55 am No Comments

The Bank of England and the Treasury celebrate as figures show a shock improvement in the labour market.

August 12, 2009 4:48 pm No Comments

Like a Greek Oracle, Mervyn King has divined some encouraging signs at the quarterly Bank of England assessment of the UK economy. But the bulk of the statistical soothsaying was pretty bleak. The banking system is still in a bad way and it may take some years for it to be “weaned off very large [...]

August 6, 2009 7:32 pm No Comments

A crisis of the motor industry; a crisis of the home industry; a credit crisis; and high petrol prices. Every expressway of the American Great Recession passes through Elkhart Indiana, capital of RV manufacturing (recreational vehicle: basically motorhomes and trailers). It’s totally devastating for places like Elkhart that we have just visited at the same [...]