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Covid jobs crisis

A series exploring how the coronavirus pandemic has affected unemployment in the UK

October 2021

  • Isle of Wight festival returning last month.

    More than a third of UK music industry workers lost jobs in 2020

    UK Music’s annual report says 69,000 people lost work as the pandemic wiped billions off the value of the sector

5 February 2021

  • Unemployment in Covid times

    UK's green plan offers mixed hopes for post-Covid-19 jobs boom

    Only five green jobs on average are created per £1m spent, while most equipment is made abroad

4 February 2021

  • Budget composite

    Labour calls for 'smart' extension and overhaul of furlough scheme

    Anneliese Dodds urges chancellor to announce indefinite extension before March budget
  • unemployed12

    'Lost generation of unemployed': Covid hits careers of over-50s

    People over 50 who lose their jobs more likely to suffer long-term joblessness than other age groups

    • Closed doors and lives in limbo: young Britons face Covid jobs crisis

    • UK's Covid unemployed: 'Financial insecurity drives stress and anxiety'

    • Fix gaps in furlough for self-employed workers, government urged

3 February 2021

  • The Covid crisis has put pressure on the UK’s hospitality sector, among others

    The UK's Covid-19 unemployment crisis in six charts

    Six charts spell out the pandemic’s devastating impact on employment
  • The People’s March for Jobs; people queuing to sign on as unemployed; economist John Maynard Keynes.

    What we can learn from British history about unemployment

    Scarring left by job losses of the early 1980s is still the reference point for today’s politicians

    • 'We want to be busy': Tottenham battles Covid-19 recession

    • Britain's Covid unemployed: 'I’m broke. I'm going to the food bank for handouts'

    • Extend furlough or risk mass unemployment, industry and unions warn Sunak

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