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Old 14-06-2009, 23:41   #37
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Re: What do our MP's do for us?

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE View Post
And with the loss of all those jobs are we being told that unemployment is not as high as in the seventies? I find that very hard to believe
I can only find actual historical unemployment figures for Hyndburn in census years.

In 1981 there was 3,694 people of working age in the borough unemployed.

In 2001, the last year we had a census, the figure had fallen to 1,432.
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