Labour's manifesto will commit the party to switching savings from unemployment benefit directly into the education budget, Chancellor Gordon Brown has said.
Mr Brown confirmed any future Labour Government would introduce a more intense programme of job-seeking for the first 13 weeks of unemployment benefit, in a determined drive to get people back to work.
He said new initiatives would also focus on areas with high ethnic minority communities.
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