The scale of Britain's deepening jobs crisis was revealed in a TUC study published in late December showing that nearly 300,000 people were spending their second successive Christmas out of work.
The number of claimants who have been out of work for at least a year has increased by 35,000 over the course of 2011 according to the analysis of official statistics, while the number of long-term claimants over the Christmas period has more than doubled from 122,000 in 2007 to 279,000 today.
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