Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Unit 2: UK unemployment rises to 6.7%

The BBC reports the latest depressing unemployment figures; note also the decline in the number of vacancies available for those unemployed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8011732.stm

a) What does an unemployment rate of 6.7% mean?
b) Explain how can there be 2.1m people unemployed when there are 462,000 job vacancies

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