Official government figures from the ONS have revealed that the underlying trend of rising unemployment among the hardest-to-reach families in Britain continues to grow.
The number of people unemployed for over 24 months increased by 39,000 to reach 385,000 adding to earlier fears of a growing aspiration gap highlighted by the Prince’s Trust report which revealed that more than a quarter from poor homes feel that ‘people like them don’t succeed in life’. Although total number of unemployed people…
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