Unemployment

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National War Effort – in the House of Commons at on 20 April 1944.

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In present circumstances there is practically no hard core of unemployment. The number of persons capable of work who are permanently unemployed is negligible. Those now registered as out of work consist almost entirely of persons who are unemployed for a short interval between one job and the next.