State running to stand still on jobs
"Unconscionably high." That's how Pat Rabbitte, the Labour cabinet minister, describes Ireland's unemployment rate, which remains stubbornly concrete at 14.6 per cent.
Ian Kehoe
"Unconscionably high." That's how Pat Rabbitte, the Labour cabinet minister, describes Ireland's unemployment rate, which remains stubbornly concrete at 14.6 per cent.
In an interview with *The Sunday Business Post*, Rabbitte said that getting 100,000 people back to work was the government's first priority, conceding that no government could stand over a 14.6 per cent unemployment rate.
Last Friday, the government unveiled its latest scheme to do something about it.
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