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Article: Leaning against the wind; Jobcentre Plus in the recession.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2009
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GET off the Underground at Stratford in east London and you might wonder whether there was a recession on at all. The shopping centre is bustling and builders are hard at work putting up facilities for the Olympic games.
There are still plenty of new "customers" at the job centre near the station, however. The Stratford branch is one of 750 run by Jobcentre Plus, the government's job-search and benefit agency. Before the recent jump in unemployment it had been focusing particularly on getting longer-term claimants back into work, says Mel ...