Shropshire worklessness figures released
Thursday 8th September 2011, 3:00PM BST.
Shrewsbury has more homes where people are in work than any other part of Shropshire, new figures showed this afternoon.
And the town also has a relatively low number of households where nobody works, the figures show.
The Office for National Statistics today revealed figures for worklessness across the UK.
Shrewsbury & Atcham tops the list locally in the figures for households with work, at 65.5 per cent. Oswestry is close behind with 64.9 per cent.
In Telford & Wrekin, only 50.4 per cent of households have work. The next lowest figure for the region is south Shropshire, where 58.1 per cent of households have work, though the district also has the highest proportion of retired people.
Shrewsbury & Atcham also performs well in the new national tables for the number of workless households at 11.7 per cent.
In Telford & Wrekin, 19.2 per cent of households have no work at all.
However, in south Shropshire, the figure is 10.7 per cent, which is among the lowest in the UK.
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and it’s going to get a hell of a lot worse with the impending dollar collapse & the euro & the amount of money being wasted attacking non white countries.
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So what are you looking for us to do, attack white countries instead?
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how about take care of our own economy & people before judging & trying to control anothers.
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Surely in the interests of equality we should distribute our attacks evenly (probably best to leave China off the list though….).
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It would be interesting to see current statistics for the demographics of those of working age within Telford and Shropshire. Historically Telford has a relatively young population – the remainder of Shropshire typically has had a somewhat older population, a proportion of whom would be too old to count in the jobless figures.
Either way, both the 19.2 per cent and the 13.3 per cent figures are pretty horrific, and can only get worse, given current economic policies which are stifling the economy, and are predicted to lead to a further million job losses – shared roughly 50/50 between the private and public sector.
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Not good but the figures don’t tell us much as they stand – I assume all-pensioner households, for instance, are included. Nor is there any comparison with previous years.
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To put it in context – the national figures range from 11.2% to 31.9%, with the national average being 18.9%. So Telford is marginally above the average mark for the UK.
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This corrupt government look after there own I see they are going to cut the tax for the rich now that will help ? They don’t care about the working class they have just opened 3 so called free schools by us it mean there are not enough pupils for the other schools so now they are talking about having to shut a school down and were is all the money going ? To the so called free schools what a con .
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Yes,but how many of those don’t want a job??
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“Yes,but how many of those don’t want a job?”
Some I’m sure – but I’ll bet there are a hell of a sight more who are desperate for one.
You lot in Shrewsbury are slow off the mark today aren’t you?
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Us lot in Shrewsbury are to busy working Rob
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Not in Telford I hope?
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snide remark from clayton attempting to stereotype the unemployed,easy targets.
I take it your quite comfortably situated !!!
As an ex dept of employment employee I would say most Clayton, even taking into account the poor wages, decreasing pension prospects and harder working conditions.
Point the finger where it belongs upwards rather than down, big business and govt namely (although that requires a tad more courage).
My wife and I are 61 and currently unemployed!
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all the more reason perhaps not to lay off thousands of public sector workers right now?
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If the indigenous population of Telford really wanted jobs you wouldn’t have Polish and other immigrant workers.
It’s no use complaining about the government, although they are far from being free of critisism. There is alot of people out there that have never worked and don’t want to work. This is the reason why there are so many immigrants working in Britain.
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mass unemployment plus mass immigration equals low wages and low cost working conditions. This adds up to increased profits.
Once again this old chestnut of blaming all our woes on a minority, the unemployed, is dragged up care of the shropshire star.
Pick on someone your own size ie the govt,banks etc.
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“In Telford & Wrekin, only 50.4 per cent of households have work….
….In Telford & Wrekin, 19.2 per cent of households have no work at all.”
…so what about the remaining 30.8% who don’t fit into either of the above two categories?
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Get these dole scroungers doing some litter picking i say
there are plenty of jobs need doing, cleaning chewing gum off the pavement, cleaning my shoes, what ever they should earn it like we do
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Cant be as bad as the 80′s, as I do not know any person unemployed.
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To be honest, I was thinking the same thing the other day. You are correct, it’s nowhere like the 80′s at the moment, BUT …. only because government are still spending (more than even Labour did) and keeping interest rates artificially low. Anyone remember mortgage rates at 15%?
The rates will be kept low and inflation allowed to rise to allow the national debt to be effectively reduced, but I doubt that the cuts that everyone moans about have really, really started. When they do, it will be obvious – just like in the 80′s.
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I really feel sorry for the people of working age today.I left school in 1957. aged 15 years, we had no career people etc to advise us, it was you have left now find a job. Unlike today, this was easy, you could choose what you wanted to be, Engineer, Painter, Railways, Police Cadet, Local Government, anything in the Building Trade. The list was endless. My parents decided that I was to become an Engineer, in their words, it’s a job for life, so that was it,so I started my Apprenticeship on the Tuesday after leaving school on the Friday. The girls had the same opportunitie,Shop or Office work, Silhouette Factory etc. No qualifications needed. A CV never heard of them. GCSE’s no. O and A levels were only for the brainey rich kids. What is the answer to bring back full employment?
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Stop the handouts?
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Yep, stop the handouts.
And stop government from taxing jobs by continually hiking employer NI rates.
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The one question I’d like to ask is what does “worklessness” mean?
You can’t go around making words up willy nilly you know!
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What do you think it means?
Go on, have a guess.
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I agree, Im finding it very hard to find work, and am put off by all the homophobia in the workplace. Id love to find a job, and just because im gay dosnt mean I cant work!! This country needs to wise up!
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what is worse is those that do work but in the public sector on cushy hours who are in effect “underemployed” and therefore are doing more harm to the economy even than the unemployed, we must shrink the state, it is written, so it must be done.
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Oooh look, someone let a troll in. I would ask you to back up your rubbish with evidence but of course that will never happen.
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