I know the title will anger people, so to explain the data shows the rising unemployment rate was instead heavily down to people just becoming economically active again, not losing their jobs.
Economically inactive people has been a big issue to the UK since COVID, however this seems to be improving. Over three times more people became economically active than people who became unemployed
>However, the increase in unemployment wasn’t wholly driven by job cuts. Jobless rates don’t count people economists describe as “economically inactive”, neither employed nor actively seeking work, whether because of sickness, study, childcare or some other reason. When those people start actively looking for work, they start showing up in the official jobless rate.
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>That may help explain what is happening in the UK. The economically active population increased by 643,000 in the first nine months of 2025, compared with a 280,000 increase in the number of unemployed.
InspectorDull5915 on
Forgot to mention that the number of job vacancies has halved since 2022. There is now an average of
2.5 people applying for each vacancy compared to
1.8 a year ago.
Where’s the good news?
JBobSpig on
This a piece of propaganda? That’s not good news at all, we need people working, we need more jobs, we have fewer jobs and fewer people working, this isn’t good.
Humble_Dirt_5751 on
AI going to take our jobs and either our world will adapt or perish.
Companies now needs 1 person to do what used to pay 3 people to do.
Hollywood-is-DOA on
Another “ take what we say and accept that it’s a good thing, even tho normal UC doesn’t pay all your bills and is designed not to”.
The hate that I sometimes get, is because I am way ahead of the reality of most situations and some humans refuse to believe facts and what articles like this say.
MoleWhackSupreme on
A combination of people joining the workforce and zombie companies *finally* dying off is a pretty good thing to be fair
Rialagma on
It’s so sad when fully abled people become economically inactive because it means they are left behind by society and basically left on a welfare life line for a long time. This is actually good news!
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I know the title will anger people, so to explain the data shows the rising unemployment rate was instead heavily down to people just becoming economically active again, not losing their jobs.
Economically inactive people has been a big issue to the UK since COVID, however this seems to be improving. Over three times more people became economically active than people who became unemployed
>However, the increase in unemployment wasn’t wholly driven by job cuts. Jobless rates don’t count people economists describe as “economically inactive”, neither employed nor actively seeking work, whether because of sickness, study, childcare or some other reason. When those people start actively looking for work, they start showing up in the official jobless rate.
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>That may help explain what is happening in the UK. The economically active population increased by 643,000 in the first nine months of 2025, compared with a 280,000 increase in the number of unemployed.
Forgot to mention that the number of job vacancies has halved since 2022. There is now an average of
2.5 people applying for each vacancy compared to
1.8 a year ago.
Where’s the good news?
This a piece of propaganda? That’s not good news at all, we need people working, we need more jobs, we have fewer jobs and fewer people working, this isn’t good.
AI going to take our jobs and either our world will adapt or perish.
Companies now needs 1 person to do what used to pay 3 people to do.
Another “ take what we say and accept that it’s a good thing, even tho normal UC doesn’t pay all your bills and is designed not to”.
The hate that I sometimes get, is because I am way ahead of the reality of most situations and some humans refuse to believe facts and what articles like this say.
A combination of people joining the workforce and zombie companies *finally* dying off is a pretty good thing to be fair
It’s so sad when fully abled people become economically inactive because it means they are left behind by society and basically left on a welfare life line for a long time. This is actually good news!