Saturday, March 7, 2009

20% of dole claimants are immigrants

FOREIGN workers are being much harder hit by unemployment than Irish workers, amid concerns official figures mask the scale of job losses among non-nationals.

One in five workers on the Live Register is now a non-national, but their numbers have grown by a disproportionate rate of 140pc in the last year.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/foreign-workers-worsthit-as-jobless-rate-soars-1664607.html

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