Birmingham Unemployment One of Highest Levels In The In The Country
Tuesday 22 May, 2018 Written by Birmingham Live
According to Birmingham Live the West Midlands has one of the highest proportion of unemployment benefit claimants in the country.
Data published by the Office for National Statistics shows that there were 70,925 people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or on Universal Credit and required to look for work in metropolitan county.
This corresponds to 3.9 per cent of the working-age population - one of the highest figures in the whole UK and far ahead of the UK average of 2.2 per cent.
An extra 5,975 people were claiming unemployment benefit in the district compared a year earlier.
Men were much more likely to be unemployed than women - some 4.8 per cent of men were claiming compared to three per cent of women.
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