This jobs deficit has left over 4.3 unemployed workers for every available job.
Perhaps as a result, unemployed workers have been slow to find jobs.
He looks to the north, the story goes, and sees millions of unemployed workers.
But all this is cold comfort to most unemployed workers.
If the Democrats had their way, the nation would have a new system of increased benefits for unemployed workers.
Given that there are 425,000 unemployed workers in London, what's going on?
And the number of unemployed workers who will never regain their old jobs is near record levels.
During the same four months, the number of unemployed workers rose by 68,000, to 358,000 in April.
The number of workers totally unemployed reached 10 percent in 1986.
There are two main reasons why these unemployed workers do not find jobs immediately.