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FTSE 100 Live: Unemployment rate lowest since 1974, pay squeeze continues

The UK’s unemployment rate is its lowest since 1974 after official figures today showed a surprise drop to 3.6% in the three months to July.

Evening Standard

North East unemployment falls below 5% for first time in more than a year

The region still has the highest levels of joblessness in the UK but levels have fallen significantly in the most recent figures

Chronicle Live

'Chasm' between weak consumers and booming businesses widens. How and when will it close?

Australian households are feeling "deeply pessimistic", but they are still spending money and business confidence keeps booming.

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Unemployment falls to lowest point in 48 years but pay lags behind inflation amid cost of living crisis

Jobless rate at lowest point since 1974, but hours worked and salaries both slump

The Independent UK

Wisconsin announces participation in Integrity Data Hub

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced August 8, 2022, that the state was participating in the Integrity Data Hub (IDH). The IDH is a platform of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) that “brings state workforce agencies together in collective action to compare and analyze [unemployment…

Ballotpedia

Job creation in South Africa: the president’s advisors discuss what it will take

At the end of 2021, South Africa recorded its highest unemployment rate since the dawn of democracy, at 35.3%. The figure has marginally dropped but there is still concern about how the country will tackle this issue. Dori Posel spoke to Trudi Makhaya, economic advisor to South Africa’s President Cyril…

The Conversation

New figures to reveal jobs market strength

Fresh labour force data will be closely watched to see if unemployment remains at near-record lows.

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SAD asks Himachal Pradesh youths to be cautious of claims made by AAP

CHANDIGARH: Asking the young voters of Himachal Pradesh to be sceptic of the Aam Aadmi Party’s election promise of Rs 3,000 monthly unemployment allowance and 6 lakh government jobs, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has asked Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann if the youth in his state had received any…

The Times of India

Powell: Higher rates won't likely cause deep US recession

The last time the Federal Reserve faced inflation as high as it is now, in the early 1980s, it jacked up interest rates to double-digit levels — and in the process caused a deep recession and sharply higher unemployment

The Independent UK

Fewer Americans apply for jobless aid last week

Fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the labor market remains continues to remain strong despite decades high inflation

The Independent UK

Stuart Rothenberg: Learning from the 1998 and 2002 midterms

The 1998 and 2002 elections remain the only times since 1932 that the president’s party has gained House seats in a midterm. Do those elections tell us anything about this year’s election?

Tribune News Service

‘Brother’ MK Stalin hands over tiranga to Rahul Gandhi for yatra

KANYAKUMARI: Launching the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ here on Wednesday, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi said “the country is headed towards disaster”, claiming it faces its worst ever financial crisis, coupled with the highest ever level of unemployment and price rise. At a public meeting, Rahul said the national flag — which embodies…

The Times of India

New agreement to push action on poverty

The federal government will be pushed to lift the JobSeeker payment and address long-term unemployment by welfare advocates and the peak union body.

AAP

WTO head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: how trade can help beat inequality

In a recent study South Africa was identified as ranking first of 164 countries in the World Bank’s global poverty database. Underlying this inequality is its very high rates of unemployment. Professor Dori Posel spoke to World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala about why trade is important…

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Roll Call

Learning from the 1998 and 2002 midterms - Roll Call

Are we heading toward another anomalous midterm election, like those in 1998 and 2002? That might be the case, Stuart Rothenberg writes.

The Conversation

Australians on unemployment benefits are set for two record paydays – but it's a sign of a broken system, long overdue for a fix

Australians on our humiliatingly-low unemployment benefit are about to get their biggest payday ever.

Tribune News Service

Matthew Yglesias: A debate over the deficit is just what America needs

With unemployment low, inflation high and interest rates on the rise, the time is right to bring back an old idea: bipartisan talks to reduce the federal budget deficit.

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India’s Gandhi slams PM Modi over price rise, Hindu-Muslim divide

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi blames PM Modi for soaring unemployment and inflation as he rallies supporters in Delhi.

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The Independent UK

India's main opposition protests rising prices, lack of jobs

Thousands of Indians have rallied under key opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, who made a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government over soaring unemployment and rising food and fuel prices

Dynamite News

Hatred, anger rising in India: Rahul Gandhi attacks Centre, says "people afraid of future, unemployment"

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday came down heavily on the Narendra Modi-led Central government and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are dividing the country and a sense of fear has engulfed the minds of people about " their future, inflation and unemployment…

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Congress workers dropped at designated protest sites, no one detained: Delhi Police

Dismissing reports of detention of Congress workers, Delhi police on Sunday said that the party workers were dropped at the designated protest sites and no one was detained. Read more on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

Ahead of Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi targets PM Modi

PM Modi is spreading hate and fear, the Congress leader says

The Hindu

‘Modi government has 2 brothers — unemployment and inflation’, says Congress

Jairam Ramesh hits out at Centre ahead of Congress’ 'Mehngai par halla bol' rally

Daily Mirror

'Humiliated' neighbourhood with 'no hope' has one of UK's highest unemployment rates

Residents of Gorton include those left homeless by a long-term inability to find employment and some who criticised a lack of support, although some felt they were better off being unemployed

Dynamite News

Delhi: Congress to hold 'Mehangai Par Halla Bol' rally against inflation, GST at Ramlila Maidan

Congress will hold a mega rally against price rise, unemployment and Goods and Services Tax hike at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital ahead of the party's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra'. Read more on Dynamite News

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