Over 400,000 people spent their second successive Christmas on the dole, according to TUC research published in the run up to the festive season.
The analysis of official unemployment figures also showed that mass long-term unemployment - where a local area has over 1,000 people that have been on the dole for at least a year - is no longer limited to a few employment blackspots.
Earlier in December, the TUC offered a qualified welcome to the publication of labour market figures showing a fall in unemployment. But the TUC warned that there was 'still a long way to go' before the jobs market returned to full health, with Britain needing a million more jobs just to get back to where it was five years ago.
TUC on Christmas on the dole @
http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-21784-f0.cfm
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