Read the TUC Recession Report for June 2009 Today we have published a special edition of our Recession Report. As well as the regular analysis of the most recent unemployment data, we have considered how this recession compares to those of the 1980s and 1990s. The news is not great. In contrast to some commentators,…
Read the TUC Recession Report for May 2009 In today’s Recession Report we analyse the most recent labour market statistics and look at how the recession has been affecting young people. This month we take a closer look at some of the main statistics. We explain, for instance, the difference between how the employment level…
Read the TUC Recession Report for April 2009 Today we have published our sixth Recession Report, where we analyse the most recent labour market statistics. What has been happening? It is not a pretty picture; the number of unemployed people and the proportion of the workforce who are unemployed have both risen, the number in…
Read the TUC Recession Report for March 2009 Today we have published our fifth Recession Report. It sets out our analysis of the most recent labour market statistics, which show that at the end of January this year 2.03 million people in the UK were unemployed by the ILO definition (0.8 million women and 1.2…
Read the TUC Recession Report for February 2009 Today we have published our fourth recession report. The figures are bad – although they could have been worse. The unemployment rate is now 6.3 per cent (up 0.4 points on the previous quarter) and the number of job vacancies has fallen by 76,000 over the last…
Read the TUC Recession Report for January 2009 Today we have published our third Recession Report. We conclude that it is very unlikely that prospects for employment will improve before the summer at the earliest, and that compared with a year ago unemployment is higher for both men and women, for every age group and…
Today we have published our second TUC Recession Report. Since we produced our first analysis the news has been dismal. The latest figures from Eurostat show that the economy has been shrinking in both the UK and the Euro area, and that this country entered the recession ahead of most other European countries. Independent economic…
Today we launched our first Recession Report. This monthly series will provide ongoing analysis of labour market trends and forecasts, and provide some of the facts behind the headlines. It will also consider how the recession is impacting upon particular policy areas, and in the November edition we provide a focus on vulnerable employment.
The latest unemployment figures will be published at 9.30am tomorrow (Wednesday). Unfortunately they will almost certainly make for grim reading. Richard and Nicola will aim to produce an immediate take on the figures by midday. This will be posted on the blog under one or other of their names. Following that, the first of the TUC’s monthly Recession Reports…