Dear Friends,
I snip, then comment.
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Reuss)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Matching jobs to persons
>Date: Sun, Oct 10, 1999, 11:30 pm
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>Victor Milne replied:
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>> | If you look at the job ads in the newspapers etc. here, there are many more
>> | jobs looking for people than people looking for jobs. The problem is that
>> | the qualifications of the vacant jobs are different (usually higher) than
>> | the qualifications of the unemployed people...
>Chris
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A useful plot of data is in Michael Jacobs' 'The Politics of The Real World'
written for The Real World Coalition
(Earthscan London 1996 ISBN 1 85383 350 9 ),
where (Panel 17, page 73) is given:
� a plot of Notified Vacancies and Claimant Unemployed (both pretty
squashy data, it's true) for the UK 1971-1995
(Central Statistical Office NOMIS on-line database - CSO
Unemployment Unit 'Working Brief' No 71 February 1996.).
Here we see:
� In about 1973, Claimant Nos. and Notified Vacancies were about equal,
at about 500, 000.
��While, in 1995, NVs were about 200,000, while Claimant Unemployed
(even after two decades of fiddling the measurement technique!) was 2,500,
000.
This was a result of the Tories' application of the Ridley Report (leaked in
'The Economist' May 1978.) which advocated mass unemployment as the route to
financial prosperity. (Ha!)
And, so, the solution ?
��Remove profit as the barrier to employment.
Hence our Campaign for Interest-Free Money.
Interest is a tax on production (and hence on useful work.)
Keep dancing friends !
Hugs
j
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