Northern Ireland is seeing record levels of unemployment and the problem is set to get much worse.

Labour’s Joan Burton wants to whip the unemployed into shape. She’s determined to make sure that “welfare should not be considered a lifetime option”.

Government plan to conscript unemployed for €20 extra a week.

A new scheme to conscript 5,000 unemployed people to undertake community service will be rolled out from January 2011.

The Fianna Fail Green Government has recently announced it’s ‘Work for Dole’ scheme- which they say will take up to 10,000 people off the Live Register and get them working in the community for 19 hou

The Fianna Fail Green government will try to use any means possible to disguise the true state of the economy- whether that’s by using GDP (gross domestic product) based calculations (which includes c

By Kevin Wingfield

As the country goes to the polls, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has
just published figures showing unemployment has doubled in the last year and
now stands at 402,100.

At this rate joblessness in the South could top an unprecedented half a
million by year's end.