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Gurner must remember the human cost of jobs
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Analysing the economic effects of rises and falls in employment is OK until you realise that there is a human effect of those movements.
Losing a job can be soul-destroying and have long-lasting effects both for the worker and their families.
“Full employment” (whatever that means) should be the goal. Ameliorating the damage that does to the economy should be the challenge for us all, including non-empathetic economists and property developers.
When people become regarded as simply chess pieces to move about at will, I say, a pox on both your houses!
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