A chara, – While I am always genuinely heartened to read of any drop in the unemployment figures ("Unemployment hits new six-year low of 9.4 per cent", September 29th), I wonder what this statistic would be if we included all those people who were forced to emigrate to seek employment in those six years?
Perhaps by determining and publishing this figure in parallel with the unemployment statistics, it might better focus attention on where we truly are as a nation, and where we intend to go. – Is mise,
ERIC CREAN,
Dún Laoghaire,
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Co Dublin.