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Apr 16 2008
IT IS bad enough that a rush to privatise welfare-to-work schemes will deprive Merseyside of a multi-million pound reward for cutting benefit bills – something I revealed earlier this year....
Feb 14 2008
UNEMPLOYMENT fell in the North West last month by 4,000 to 200,000 in January, as part of a national decline of 61,000 to 1.61m....
Aug 1 2007
POLITICAL parties of both colours have for many years been looking at ways of reducing the number of long-term sick and disability benefit claimants by encouraging recipients to return to work....
Jul 18 2007
UNEMPLOYMENT was the dog that didn’t bark through the Blair years, as the official jobless count fell sharply and stayed low....