UK unemployment rate hits 44-year low: official data eNCA
The jobless rate -- or proportion of the workforce that is unemployed -- hit 3.9 percent in the three months to the end of January, the lowest level since 1975, the Office for National Statistics said.
The total number of unemployed people slid by 35,000 to 1.34 million in the year to January, which was 112,000 lower than a year ago.
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