High UK Costs Are Pushing Inactive Britons Back Into Workforce

After UK unemployment rose again, government minister Stephen Kinnock pointed to a different crisis — economic inactivity — as the real problem at the heart of the labor market. “People who can work should be working,” he said this week, echoing concerns in both Westminster and at the Bank of England.

Yet this particular crisis may already be over, at least according to Britain’s latest labor market survey.