Greater Manchester's 'hidden army' of unemployed people lost in the cracks
Greater Manchester's low unemployment rate leaves out a 'hidden army' of hundreds of thousands of working-aged people who are neither in work nor looking for a job due for reasons outside their control, a report by a leading think-tank says today.
Centre for Cities' new report Cities Outlook says this so-called 'hidden unemployment' rate also clearly shows how the ongoing inactivity crisis is deepening regional divides across the country, as the urban areas with the highest rates are almost all in the North and eight of the ten lowest are in the South.
Citing data that shows that millions of people have chosen to exit the workforce, Mr Hunt said that businesses would struggle to grow if they cannot find enough staff and that employment was a “vital” part of his plan to help Britain get back to growth. “With the UK now likely to enter a recession, the Government must address its insufficient action on levelling up so far and act swiftly to create more opportunities to get people back into the labour force.
For example, in Blackburn, 9% of the population are classed as having low skills and just 9.7% of jobs are in well-paying knowledge-intensive sectors, while in Reading those figures are 3.9% and 28.4%, respectively.
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