UK unemployment eases but vacancies soar: data

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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain’s unemployment rate eased as the economy reopened, but vacancies hit another record peak before the end of the government’s furlough jobs support scheme, data showed Tuesday. The unemployment rate — or proportion of the workforce that is unemployed — dropped to 4.5 percent in the three months to August, the Office for National Statistics said in a statement. That compared with 4.6 percent in the three months to the […]