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What’s going on with DWP’s statistics on workless households?

20th August 2010 — Filed under: Labour market, Politics

Nicola Smith Nicola Smith

I have a post up at Left Foot Forward considering the mystery of DWP’s statistics on workless households. Over the course of recent weeks we have been told that 23, then 7 and then 4 per cent of households in London have never had a job, and that workless student households are part of a problem that the country needs to “tackle now”.  Could politicians be putting a party-political spin on statistical information?

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