Published: 11:22AM BST 14 Oct 2009
The number of people searching for work in the three months through August climbed by 88,000, the smallest rise since the three months to the end of July last year.
Separately, figures showed that jobless benefits rose by 20,800 in September, less than the 24,500 economists had forecast.
Experts estimate that unemployment will continue to climb in coming months even if the economy may have technically emerged from recession last quarter.
“The slower rise is welcome but I wouldn’t get too excited,” said Colin Ellis, an economist at Daiwa Securities. “I still think we will see unemployment going through 3 million next year.”
The recession is affecting alot of people and alot of businesses including our daily lives. Even our shopping! Since it is everywhere this will definately be featured in the soap. As a group we agreed to keep the recession as a main narrative.
Yer it's a real problem so, an issue that could arise constantly is the amount of CVs being set to the offices. We could feature it in the trailer for example; Aya can have a fustrated 'screaming fit' saying something along the lines of
ReplyDelete"The post is getting cloged up by all these bloody CVs, tell them to piss off!"
Or we could mention something about the postal strikes and they can all begin sweating that their mail (their very important mail) hasn't arrived.
Zoe.