LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED
SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION MADE IN BRITAIN. ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY AFFECTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 25. A substantial reduction in the number of long term unemployed, namely those on the register for a year or more, was revealed by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in the House of Commons. He said a special count of claimants for the benefit was taken on January 1, 1940. when the figures were 136,000, as compared with 223,000 on August 14 last. The reduction was distributed all over the country and affected to the extent of 25 per cent of those who had been unemployed for as long as five years or more.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 6
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119LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 6
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