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The below figures are hard to believe. A quarter of Birmingham, UK's second city, now on out-of-work benefits? That’s where unemployment peaked in 1933: and we called that a Great Depression. And Manchester: booming, employers desperate for staff. Yet one in five on the dole.

The below figures are hard to believe. A quarter of Birmingham, UK's second city, now on out-of-work benefits? That’s where unemployment peaked in 1933: and we called that a Great Depression. And Manchester: booming, employers desperate for staff. Yet one in five on the dole.