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Nearly One in Three Adults Out of Work as Northern Ireland Makes No Progress on Poverty in a Decade
February 20, 2018
YORK, England, Feb. 20 -- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation issued the following news release:

Almost one in three working-age adults in Northern Ireland are out of work, as a new report shows how Northern Ireland's employment rate is lagging behind the rest of Great Britain.

Little progress has been made on reducing poverty, according to our new report - with too many people locked out of the opportunity to secure a decent standard of living.

The warning . . .

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