| He wants to include things that he regards as the real causes of want: worklessness, educational failure and drug and alcohol dependency. There are several problems with the current measure. |
| Overcoming worklessness and poverty is central to his self-selected mission. |
| Lastly, the use of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds in relation to worklessness was not mentioned by many countries in their reports. |
| His research and policy interests centre on housing exclusion and homelessness and their relationships with social exclusion and experience of sustained worklessness. |
| Although unemployment has fallen in all regions and countries of the United Kingdom, there remain local areas with high rates of worklessness. |
| However, care and health sectors are inadequately funded at present and it would appear worthwhile to further develop the social economy, which is one of the main sources of jobs for people in situations of worklessness. |
