Jobless total on the rise once again
Reporter: Martyn Torr
Date published: 22 March 2013
unemployment in Oldham has risen, in line with national figures.
But while national unemployment rose in February for the first time in a year, Oldham’s last rise in joblessness was only last September.
The total out of work has risen to 8,341 — up by 285, 216 of them men.
The figures, delivered yesterday, were a pre–Budget blow just hours before Chancellor George Osborne delivered his 2013 speech.
Nationally, the jobless total jumped by 7,000 to 2.52 million, ending a run of reductions, with the increase caused by more 18 to 24–year–olds becoming unemployed.
The total is still 152,000 lower than a year ago
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