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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: The unemployment rate dazed the Government
Description: It could have been a coordinated knife to the Government's heart. On the day the unemployment rate went up, the Warehouse offered a real world example of the problem by announcing another 270 jobs would be added to the pile as they look to save and outsource and generally reorganise themselves. The irony, well lost in the throng of those who look to use the headline for political gain, was the fact the number of people employed is up. It's up by 15,000. But the headline is the headline and 5.4% is not 5.3%, or 5.2%. So i...