Wales has highest year-on-year rise in UK unemployment
Economic inactivity in Wales, which refers to people of working age who are not in employment or seeking work, remains the second highest of the UK nations and regions at 24.9%.
It's important not to over-interpret what is just a single snapshot of the first three months of this year. Especially when you consider that for the last five months the Wales jobless rate has been lower than the UK average. "The Labour government hold the economic levers in Wales and have consistently failed to manage the high rate of economic inactivity here for the last 25 years.
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