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Old 27-05-2008, 09:07   #68
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Re: Tough Plans for Young Jobless

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Originally Posted by andrewb View Post
I do apologise, it turns out it has been tried before. It was implemented in New York and over a decade it reduced unemployment from 3million to 1.3million.
So if unemployed people are on these schemes the figures will be massaged to look like they are in a job, when in fact they are just on this programme?

Yes, you're right, that's what the various schemes in the eighties did here, when we had over three million unemployed, the figures were played about with.
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