Tries to work with addresses around accepted unemployment black spots (10,5)

'unemployment black spots' is the definition.
(historical political term)

'tries to work with addresses around accepted' is the wordplay.
'to work with' is an anagram indicator.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'accepted' becomes 'a' (financial abbreviation).
'tries' with its letters anagrammed with 'addresses' gives 'distressedreas'.
'distressedreas' placed around 'a' is 'DISTRESSED AREAS'.