One of the key issues during this downturn is the extent to which recorded unemployment will rise back towards the two million mark - a reversal of more than a decade of strong labour market trends which has left the UK with one of the lowest jobless rates in the European Union together with one of the highest employment rates.

David Smith in the Sunday Times considers the state of the labour market Labour isn’t working again

The BBC news report looks at prospects for graduates leaving university this year Graduate jobs market stays strong

This Guardian article allows you to trace the UK’s unemployment figures all the way back to the dark days of mass unemployment close on three million people in the early 1980s UK jobless figures

The Independent reports on last week’s big jump in unemployment Jobless total jumps by 60,000