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UK needs radical policy shift to tackle unemployment

17th June 2009

UK Unemployment has risen to 2.26 million today, with the number of people in work down 271,000 in the last month - the highest quarterly decrease since records began.

John McDonnell MP, LEAP Chair, said:

“These shocking figures demonstrate that all the talk of ‘green shoots of economic recovery’ is absolutely meaningless for the nearly hundred thousand people joining the dole queue every month.

“The onus is now squarely on the shoulders of the Government to act decisively to halt the rising unemploymenbt and offer, particularly the young, real alternatives of meaningful employment and training.

“The Government needs a three-pronged policy response:

Direct intervention in companies and sectors where job losses are mounting, with subsidies to keep people in work in return for a stake in the business;
Stepping up the direct Government investment in Green New Deal infrastructure projects to stimulate new employment;
Guaranteed training and education places based on living wage grant for the unemployed”.

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Background

Across the country working people are losing their jobs and their homes. Meanwhile the bankers who plunged us into this crisis have been bailed out with billions of pounds of our money. It’s time to fight back. Their Crisis Not Ours! is the LRC’s campaign to bring together workers, pensioners, the unemployed, students, those facing repossession and all those suffering because of an economic crisis that has been imposed on us. The campaign is supporting the demands of the People’s Charter. [continue...]