The latest figures show unemployment has gone down by 34,000 people, or 0.1%. But that still leaves 2.47m people unemployed, 1.46m of whom claim unemployment benefit. These are the kind of levels not seen consistently in the UK since the mid-1990s, in the aftermath of the last recession. Unemployment always goes up after a recession; a "double-dip" GDP fall would mean higher numbers of unemployed in the future.
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