Unemployment is rising as the summer recovery fades and the furlough scheme scales back
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The latest jobless figures were not all doom and gloom. Vacancies were up by nearly 150,000 between the second and third quarters and 20,000 people were added to payrolls in September.
These, though, were silver linings to a whopping cloud. The big picture is that unemployment is going up while employment and participation in the labour market are going down.
