12 February 2012 - 8:59 pm NZ time
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Listen to this programmeIdeas - Unemployment (duration: 47′25″)
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Last week saw unemployment numbers hit 138,000 - a ten year high - and things are predicted to get worse.
This week Ideas takes a look at unemployed worker movements now and in the past.
Interviewees include:
Wellington People's Centre Benefits Rights Co-ordinator Kay Brereton
Union organiser Kim Ellis
Somali refugee Aziz Farrer
Historian Cybele Locke
Former unemployed workers activist Jane Stevens
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