(1) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) "Yes, these are areas where there's high levels of joblessness, but most people are still in jobs.
(4) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(5) In an economy still struggling with high joblessness and the threat of renewed recession still looming, convincing some of the party's stressed base might not be easy.
(6) A rising jobless total and an unemployment rate sticking at a stubbornly high 8% overshadowed a better than expected 27,100 fall in the claimant count in April, which compared with analysts' forecasts for a 20,000 drop.
(7) Spending, though, has continued to rise in line with Labour's plans, buoyed by growing expenditure on unemployment benefit as the jobless total has risen by over 600,000 in the past year.
(8) There is now widespread suspicion among experts that the claimant count figures are not representing the true state of joblessness since many unemployed people are unable to claim benefit.
(9) The governor admitted that the recent fall in unemployment would force a re-think of the Bank's forward guidance policy – the pledge not to even discuss raising interest rates from 0.5% until the jobless rate falls to 7%.
(10) The worsening unemployment picture sent the jobless rate up from 7.7% to 7.8% and left the total number unemployed at 2.52 million.
(11) It doesn't look like that, of course, when the doctor's surgery starts putting up signs in Polish, or your child can't get in to the nearest primary school, and the trajectory of the jobless figures seems relentlessly upwards – even when it is not.
(12) When combined with economic hardship, this loss makes the jobless more likely to suffer depression and even to take their own lives, as starkly shown by Sanjay Basu and David Stuckler in The Body Economic .
(13) The Office for National Statistics said the broadest measure of unemployment showed joblessness at 2.47 million in the three months to August, up 88,000 from the previous three months but a similar level to that it reported for July and one which left the jobless rate steady at 7.9%.
(14) The number of people claiming jobless benefits across Britain dropped by 5,900, defying City forecasts of an increase.
(15) The Lib Dems are especially aware that spending cuts in some departments of over 15%, a near-two-year freeze in public sector pay, higher jobless forecasts and early reductions in welfare benefits will combine to shock many of the party's traditional supporters.
(16) In countries like Spain and Greece, overall jobless rates are approaching 25%, with youth unemployment over 50%.
(17) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
(18) The Bank has been surprised by the recent performance of the economy, having predicted last August that it could be early 2016 before the jobless rate hit 7%.
(19) The chancellor said he was extending the current three-day wait before the jobless can claim benefits to seven days.
(20) At points the jobless rate has fallen noticeably while growth lags.
Scally
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(1) The coalition's commitment to local power is a sham, Scally insists.
(2) The scallies watch the car until it is swallowed up in the traffic on Walton Lane.
(3) No longer muzzled, Scally – an articulate and passionate defender of the NHS – is set to become a thorn in Lansley's flesh, and a key voice in the debates about public health issues, such as obesity, tobacco control and public health's impending transfer from the NHS to local government.
(4) I mean the year the fence was breached in several places and thousands of scumbags, scallies and thieves poured through, all intent on ferreting through tents for valuables, all spoiling for a scrap.
(5) Can you tell Mr Wilson his car is still here in Eckersley Avenue?’ The scallies had watched him pick it up, followed him back, stolen it again, driven it back to Liverpool and parked it in exactly the same place.
(6) Feel Steve Osmond's pain: "Promising start - not for the moaning scallies, but for me cos I've got an accumulator worth £80,000 involving Maldini as the first scorer," he says, before adding the caveat: "It does however need Kewell to score too."
(7) Scally, whose career as an NHS public health director began almost two decades ago, became disillusioned under the coalition.
(8) The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos.
(9) A smile breaks out as I wave hopefully and Manc scally mutates into professional scouser: Phil Redmond CBE, writer and creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, not to mention honorary professor of media at Liverpool John Moores University .
(10) Scally, for one, does not intend to let that happen.
(11) Scally, who trained as a GP, says GPs are not the right people to commission health services, contradicting established wisdom in the medical and health policy community.
(12) Scally completely rejects ministerial claims that abolishing primary care trusts and strategic health authorities (SHAs) and handing control of £60bn of patient treatment budgets from next April to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), will – to coin a favourite Lansleyism – "liberate" the NHS.
(13) Dr Gabriel Scally, a senior NHS doctor, was until April employed by the Department of Health , but he resigned as a direct result of his alarm at the coalition government's health policies – and because he wanted the freedom to oppose them.
(14) In his first interview since stepping down as regional director of public health for the south-west of England, Scally says: "The time had come for me to step outside the formal system and do things in a different way.
(15) Instead she met guitarist and keyboard player Alex Scally (if Mattel made bookishly hot band-geek Ken dolls, he could be the inspiration), and after practising in a basement together, they released their debut album Beach House on Carpark records in 2006.
(16) The fee proposed, a £25,000 down payment with another £25,000 to be paid six months later, was rejected by the Gillingham chairman, Paul Scally, only for an independent tribunal to set a deal at an initial £125,000, with £100,000 due for every 10 league appearances made thereafter up to 40 games.
(17) "It's sad to say it, but it's symptomatic of the rape of smaller clubs' youth systems by those in the Premier League," said Scally on Saturday night.
(18) "Abolishing the cabinet subcommittee after only two years means the coalition is not only breaking their promise to make public health a priority across government but showing how little they really care about improving the health of the population," said Scally.
(19) Prof Gabriel Scally, a senior doctor who until April was employed by the health department to lead public health efforts in the south-west of England, said getting rid of the subcommittee showed ministers had broken their pledge to make public health a key priority.
(20) Allt's account depicts Liverpool's travelling army as scallies not sadists, supporting themselves through petty theft and blagging, and resorting to violence only when provoked.