Job creation.

In the early 1990s under the previous Conservative administration, unemployment in Thanet stood at 18%. Since then the Labour controlled Council has attracted investment into the area with the result that over 3000 jobs have been created, and unemployment was down to 7% in 2002.
This is still unacceptably high and the Labour group would like to see this reduced even further, to the Kent average of 3% or lower.

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