The government's furlough scheme has stopped unemployment surging, but that may be changing.
UK unemployment figures due out on Tuesday could show the coronavirus pandemic finally taking its toll on the jobs market.Joblessness has not surged, as many feared, because large numbers of firms have put employees on the government-backed furlough scheme.
"It's definitely an uphill struggle and it's proving harder then previous ones," she told the BBC."It's hard to have a positive outlook." "It was a lot of stress, to say the least," he says."We had a lot of help from family, but without that, I don't know what we would have done." Now she feels"stuck in limbo" - keen to try something new, but unsure of when her children will return to school.
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