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The UK towns and cities facing 'double distress' as coronavirus recession bites

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Communities already gripped by unemployment are set to be plunged deeper into misery as the coronavirus jobs crisis unfolds, a report warns tonight.

Neighbourhoods battling “employment deprivation” face being hit harder by looming job cuts, according to a study by the Communities in Charge campaign.

It says: “We found that 44% of neighbourhoods in the top two deciles of employment deprivation in 2019 (or ‘job-poor neighbourhoods’) are now deemed to be in the top 20% most at-risk neighbourhoods for Covid-19 related job losses. “These neighbourhoods, where over 15% of the working-age population were already involuntarily excluded from the labour market either through unemployment, sickness, disability or caring responsibilities, now face the

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