Employment is up yet again – but the job is not quite done
There are more benefits to full employment than you might think.
There are more benefits to full employment than you might think.
To maximise people’s chances of finding work we need to tackle the structural problems they face.
It was the Keynesian era of full employment – when, after all, more people were ‘contributing’ – that delivered ever higher proportions of contributory spend that rose to 71 per cent by the mid-1970s Keynesian collapse.
Most of the rest of the North and Midlands suffer higher than average unemployment rates, adding to a picture of a seriously unbalanced economy.