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  SCROUNGERS should be forced to take a minimum wage job or lose their benefits, a shock report demands.
  
  It comes after figures show the number of long-term unemployed has soared to more than 400,000, the highest level since 1997.
  Experts fear many workshy Brits may never get a job unless they are forced to. In the hard-hitting report, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) calls for people unemployed for more than a year to be given a minimum wage job which they must accept
  The think tank says the job should last up to six months and be a maximum 30 hours a week so people have time to hunt for permanent work.
  
  IPPR chief economist Tony Dolphin said: "The longer someone is unemployed, the less likely they are to ever return to work.
  "If we're going to provide decent services for our ageing population and clear the deficit, we need people in work to maximise tax revenues."
  
  Since the credit crunch, unemployment has risen by an incredible 49%. But the number of people jobless for more than two years is up by 114%.
  
  The number of long-term unemployed youngsters has trebled since 2008
  
  From the Daily Star

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