#unemployment

#unemployment

Losing a job can significantly change your identity, especially if your job informs your sense of self, status, and purpose. Grief and anxiety can aggravate a potential identity crisis.

Grangemouth refinery is no longer processing crude oil. Petroineos has invested £50 million in creating a modern import and distribution terminal capable of receiving finished fuels.

Of the nearly 1,500 workers surveyed, about one in five said they found that unemployment benefits were 'not adequate to meet their financial needs,' though this figure varied by state.

Luxury department store Selfridges faced backlash for selling a £55 T-shirt mocking unemployed people, sparking outrage and calls for its removal.

"I worked in one of those," he says. "I met people over the 1970s and 1980s whose lives depended on those workplaces and who assumed that that was going to be their life."

When Phoebe Cross lost her job at a charity providing support for single parents, she found herself in the same position as many of the women she had been helping.

The latest UK labour market report indicates gradual weakness, with rising unemployment, while reaffirming a stagflationary backdrop and unlikely changes to Bank of England's policy.