Many Regions Find Themselves More Negatively Impacted By Any Economic Shock

1st October 2020

Economic crisis affects not only sectors unequally. Many regions find themselves more negatively impacted by any economic shock than others, leading to much higher regional inequality.

Claimant Count (number of people on Universal Credit and Job Seekers Allowance) has risen sharply in the face of the pandemic. Historically, Scotland has been somewhere in the middle of the pack compared to other regions of the UK, but a 4.1 percentage point increase in August of this year has placed Scotland among the hardest-hit regions of the UK in terms of claims.

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