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OECD hits out at jobs funding decision

The OECD has raised concerns about the coalition Government’s decision to cut off financing for job programmes as it warned that the unemployment rate in Britain would remain at nearly 8% for the next 18 months.

“The economic recovery will be too muted to result in strong job creation and that unemployment is likely to recede only slowly.