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19 November 2008 Editorial When Tony McNulty, New Labour's minister for (un)employment was asked by the TUC if the government would consider increasing unemployment benefit because of the number of workers now losing their jobs, he said no - because it would stop people looking for jobs if it is set too high... 19 November 2008 Interviews: In the aftermath of the horrific death of 'Baby P' the media has been casting around for people on whom to pile the blame... 12 November 2008 AROUND FOUR and a half million pensioners in Britain are forced to stay in just one heated room to save on fuel costs, a new report reveals, writes Roger Shrives. 5 November 2008 Lone parents need decent wages and benefits, photo by Paul Mattsson 15 October 2008
Book review: In 1966, a quarter of the population tuned in to watch Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home, a groundbreaking work which brought the issues of homelessness and unemployment into living rooms across Britain, writes Reviewed by Dave Gorton. 22 July 2008
Work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, has announced a major attack on benefits claimants in his new welfare green paper. His claim that the changes will "transform lives" will be borne out, but disgracefully it will be in a transformation for for the worse... 2 July 2008
JAMES PURNELL, secretary of state for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has announced that he intends to let private sector companies cherry pick whatever DWP services they wanted to provide, writes Dave Reid. 23 April 2008 I'M ON strike on 24 April with hundreds of thousands of other workers across the public sector, writes By a DWP worker. 2 April 2008
WITH 2,000 job losses projected out of a total workforce of 6,000 at Northern Rock, together with one third of all jobs in the financial sector going, the shadow of unemployment returns once more to haunt working-class areas... 30 January 2008
THE GOVERNMENT'S plans for 'welfare reform' are raising concern among people on Incapacity Benefit (IB). Nooshin Shabani spoke to two people on incapacity benefit... 1 - 10 of 30 | Next > | |||||||||||||||
