Articles from the Daily Mail:- Unemployment

Official figures: £4.1billion was sent out of the UK by migrants working here in 2007

Economy losing £4.9m a day - because immigrants send it home to relatives

The economy is losing £4.9million every day because of the huge sums immigrants send home to their relatives, official figures show.
Analysis by the Office for National Statistics found that £4.1billion was sent out of the UK by migrants working here in 2007.
The figure is almost double the £2.3billion sent home in 1998, reflecting the huge increase in the number of migrant workers under Labour.
The total amount sent out of the UK over the past decade is £31.5billion.

Unemployment hits 12-year high of 2.2m

Unemployment has soared to a 12-year high of more than 2.2 million after a record number of people lost their jobs in recent months, gloomy new figures showed today.
The jobless total increased by 232,000 in the three months to April to reach 2.26 million, the worst figure since the end of 1996.
The number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance increased by 39,300 in May to 1.54 million, the highest total since the summer of 1997.


Rock bottom: But the rise in claimant count was also lower than expected

BEN LAURANCE: UK unemployment is now higher than Slovenia and Romania - but is Ministry of Hole Digging really the answer?

Today's unemployment figures were quite bad enough: with 1.92m people looking for a job, that makes it the highest number for more than a decade. And the UK now has a higher unemployment rate than the likes of Slovenia, Romania, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.
But make no mistake, things are going to get much, much worse before they get better. The two millon barrier will, without doubt be breached when the next set of monthly figures come out.

Unemployment: the manufacturing industry is continuing to shrink and there are fears the jobless total will soon pass the two million mark

Long-term unemployment almost doubles to 300,000

Britain's long-term unemployment is set to soar to more than 300,000 people, Whitehall officials have admitted for the first time.
In a huge blow to Labour's boast to have slashed long-term joblessness, new figures will show that the rise is so dramatic that private contractors for welfare

Britain's long-term unemployment is set to soar to more than 300,000 people