All Work and Low Pay Makes Britain's Sick Folk Stay Away

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Once again Britons are working in greater numbers than ever - 28.43 million of us at the latest count. That is 232,000 more than a year ago and a triumph for Chancellor Brown's Presbyterian work ethic, as he will doubtless remind us on December 2, his pre-Budget statement day.

He may say less about a second blossoming statistic - 7.9 million people described as 'economically inactive'. There are 305,0000 more of these than when New Labour came to power seven years ago - a number which Jane Kennedy, Minister for Work, claimed yesterday exactly matches the growth in the population and the increase in the number of students.

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All Work and Low Pay Makes Britain's Sick Folk Stay Away

Whether students who do, or seek, part-time work when the are broke should count as 'economically active' is debatable...

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