Varadkar targeting long-term jobless
Ambitious aims include reducing unemployment to five or six per cent by 2020
Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar is planning a series of measures to tackle long-term unemployment and so-called jobless households.
Varadkar will propose a series of ambitious employment targets tomorrow, including nearly halving long-term unemployment in the next four years.
An action plan for jobless households is to be brought before government later this year.
The action plan will focus on the long-term unemployed and particularly those out of work for more than ...
