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<p>Union leaders have complained of a &#8220;distinct lack of jobs&#8221; in the UK, highlighting figures showing that the number of long term unemployed has doubled since before the recession.</p>
<p>The TUC said almost 250,000 people in England, Scotland and Wales had been claiming Jobseeker&#8217;s Allowance for at least a year, twice as many as at the start of 2008.</p>
<p>Ahead of new unemployment figures, the TUC said the increase in long-term unemployment was caused by hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost during the recession and insufficient new ones being created.</p>
<p>The union organisation warned that the position was likely to get worse as jobs were lost due to the Government&#8217;s spending cuts, which some experts believe could put an extra million people on the dole.</p>
<p>Birmingham had the highest number of long-term unemployed claimants at 12,475, a 42% increase since January 2008, while in Glasgow the figure has increased by 121% to 5,545, and in Liverpool there were 4,760 people claiming JSA who have not worked for more than a year, a rise of almost a third, said the TUC.</p>
<p>By the wider International Labour Organisation measure of unemployment, which includes people not eligible for benefit, there were currently 811,000 people facing long-term unemployment, an increase of 110% since the start of the recession.</p>
<p>TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: &#8220;The UK has 2.5 million people out of work, not because we&#8217;re a nation of workshy scroungers without a work ethic, but because with an average five unemployed people chasing every vacancy, there is a distinct lack of jobs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The number of people who have been out of work for a year or longer has more than doubled since January 2008. Unemployed people are the victims here, not the villains.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Government should stop blaming unemployed people for their predicament and start creating rather than cutting jobs.&#8221;</p>
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