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Unemployment down, but are jobs enough to cover rising costs?

17:39 pm on 15 July 2021

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The government's counting another drop in unemployment numbers as a win - but others say they don't paint the whole picture.

Over the past three months, more than 31,000 people found jobs and got off the benefit.

It is the second highest number of people finding work since records began.

Nita Blake-Persen reports.