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Unemployment dominates the headlines

Geoff Riley

13th January 2009

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The rising jobless total dominates the headlines today - students preparing for the OCR2888 paper this month will be interested to see that unemployment in Spain has now risen above 3 million - a rise of 48% over the year.

Independent High unemployment is here to stay

Times Thousands of jobs go here, there and everywhere

Financial Times Making Work

Guardian Companies to get £2,500 for each long-term jobless recruit

From earth movers to art market the layoffs keep mounting

BBC Business News UK economy downturn ‘frightening’

Unemployment in Spain reaches 3 million

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.