| Overcoming worklessness and poverty is central to his self-selected mission. |
| Mr Purnell, only 37, takes over just as welfare reform is hotting up. On January 28th the new boy stood shoulder to shoulder with the prime minister, Gordon Brown, to present the government's latest plans to cut worklessness. |
| Male worklessness has been linked with lower marriage rates and weakening family bonds. All this means that grappling with entrenched joblessness deserves to be far higher on America's policy agenda. |
| Although unemployment has fallen in all regions and countries of the United Kingdom, there remain local areas with high rates of worklessness. |
| The problem of worklessness can be exacerbated by a lack of incentive to work caused by the relationship between low wages and loss of benefits. |
| Lastly, the use of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds in relation to worklessness was not mentioned by many countries in their reports. |
