Four million people of working age in Britain have never had a proper job

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Staggering official government statistics shows for the first time the true extent of a problem costing taxpayers billions each year.:o

The biggest culprit is Birmingham with 144000 unemployed. Amazingly this is double that of Manchester with 71000 unemployed. But really we all saw that coming, Birmingham has been going downhill fast due to a number of factors with no sighs of it getting better.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...had-a-proper-job-all-their-working-lives.html
 
The only sigh I can hear is the one coming out of my cake hole right now.
 
1.1m of them are 16-17 year olds (out of education) or older students currently in education according to the article.
 
TnT_ZZZ said:
The biggest culprit is Birmingham with 144000 unemployed. Amazingly this is double that of Manchester with 71000 unemployed. But really we all saw that coming, Birmingham has been going downhill fast due to a number of factors with no sighs of it getting better.
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I hate to be overly pragmatic but given Birmingham is the most populous city outside London it doesn't seem all that odd for it to be correspondingly also the place with the second largest amount of unemployed people...

You might also note that the article does point out that London has the most unemployed with 737,000 who have never worked, it's not Birmingham as the biggest "culprit". Big population centres rather unsurprisingly tend to also link to the areas where there is large amounts of unemployment.
 
The 3.9m also includes disabled people. Without knowing the disabilities it's hardly alarming for such people to have never had a job. Remove younger students (college/university), and 16-24 year old NEETs we would probably get a more sensible number.

The latter is however a problem in itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-19342998
 
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Since I'm too lazy to read the article, can anyone tell me how many of those 4 million people are still in education. I suspect it will account for a lot of them
 
and how many of them are women looking after kids etc? how many are disabled ?

it just seems to be a shock figure so people imagine 4million job seekers that never had a job ever

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Since I'm too lazy to read the article, can anyone tell me how many of those 4 million people are still in education. I suspect it will account for a lot of them
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a million aged between 25 and 64 who have not taken home a single pay packet.
205,000 pensioners aged 65-plus never did a day’s paid work before “retiring”
1.1 million are 16 or 17 and have quit school but not found work — or are students who have never had a holiday job.
so really we have about 1.2million people that never worked in their life and the rest have either just left education or are in education but never had a job.


Scaremongering shock figures to take heat of the crappy coalition in power...
 
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muon said:
Remove younger students (college/university), and 16-24 year old NEETs we would probably get a more sensible number.

The latter is however a problem in itself.
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that's very true... its quite staggering the number that haven't found themselves a job.

Businesses will still get workers from somewhere - the lack of mobility and/or desire amongst some groups of our native population simply means there are opportunities for other European migrants to find work here something many have done and will continue to do - often they're taking up the very same jobs that could be taken by our own 16-24 yr olds if they had the desire/motivation to move to where work was available instead of simply hanging around in the same town they grew up in and signing on just like their parents before them have done.

Despite the lefty moans about people on benefits having a rough time some of these 16-24 yr olds might well have an even rougher time in future if they don't do something about it now - benefits aren't likely to increase in future, they're only likely to trend downwards. There is a growing middle class population in Asia, there will be grown demands on resources in future... our benefits system is incredibly generous when compared globally - in order to remain competitive its likely to have to be reduced severely in future.
 
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