The second jolt came with this month's jobless figures.

A painful reminder of one of the most pressing problems came early yesterday with new jobless figures.

The findings come ahead of the latest jobless figures out today.

The financial crisis has seen jobless figures hit 21.3 per cent.

Watch out for jobless figures an hour before he speaks.

It's about more than improving the jobless numbers.

Something similar will be in store here as and when the jobless numbers pass some key milestones.

These workers will disappear from the jobless numbers ...

That would represent a substantial increase from the first half of 2007, when jobless numbers first began to rise from 6.9 million.

Where prices rose unexpectedly, the jobless numbers fell this week.

The jobless rate edged up to 9.6 percent from 9.5 percent.

Meanwhile, the jobless rate rose to five per cent.

The jobless rate has dropped to 7.7 per cent, down from 7.8 per cent.

For those under 25, the jobless rate has risen from 43.1 per cent to 53.9 per cent.

Debt and benefit inquiries soared in line with the jobless rate.

In the 1990s many economists predicted a 'jobless recovery' with unemployment remaining high for a prolonged period.

Call it a jobless recovery.

Let's start with his biggest political problem - the so-called jobless recovery.

There has been much talk of a 'jobless recovery'.

Nevertheless, economists continue to be worried about the prospects of a jobless recovery.

Jobless workers and pensioners with families to support will be allowed to delay half their mortgage payments for up to two years under a government proposal.

Almost 22 per cent of jobless workers have been without work for 27 weeks or more.

It called for cash saved by robots to fund retraining for jobless workers.

For example, the longer jobless workers remain unemployed, the more their skills and professional networks can atrophy, potentially rendering these workers unemployable.