Rachel Reeves MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding to this morning’s Labour Market Statistics, said:
“While today’s fall in overall unemployment is welcome, the figures show 912,000 young people are unemployed and long-term youth unemployment has doubled under David Cameron. It’s clear tens of thousands of young people are not feeling any recovery at all.
“There has also been a worrying rise in the number of people unemployed for over two years.
“Today‘s figures also show that working people facing a cost-of-living crisis and that prices are still rising faster than wages under David Cameron.
“The Government should use today’s Budget to introduce Labour’s Compulsory Jobs Guarantee to get young people and the long-term unemployed off benefits and back to work.”
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