Final Statement: Our Forgotten Generation Will Have Their Work Cut Out

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AMID the jumble of unemployment data released last week two trends stood out. Unemployment in Scotland is rising at double the rate of the rest of the UK, and young people are suffering most.

True the overall unemployment rate showed some cause for satisfaction at 6.6 per cent, compared with the UK average of 7.2 per cent for the UK as a whole, and 8 per cent in London.

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Final Statement: Our Forgotten Generation Will Have Their Work Cut Out

But it is the rate of deterioration which has to be a primary concern, not least given, for all we know, that the jobs backlash following the merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS and the failure of Royal Bank o...

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