Low skills and unemployment hand in hand

Bad luck if you live in places such as Corby, Swindon or Walsall. These are the three places with fastest rising rates of unemployment.

And, says The Work Foundation, it’s places with the highest numbers of people with low or no skills that are suffering the most in the recession.

In a new report Recession and Recovery: How UK cities can respond and drive the recovery , the Foundation says that workforce skills largely determine how well cities are performing in the recession.

What it calls ‘high skills cities’, such as Cambridge, York and Oxford, have fared better compared to areas with a high proportion of residents with no or low qualifications.

So where’s all that money going that’s supposed to be spent on upgrading the workforce to world-class status?

www.theworkfoundation.com

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