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  • 1 Mar 2013
    Eastleigh, UKIP and the immigration blame-game

    On the day of the Eastleigh by-election, figures were released which showed a marked recent decline in net migration, which obviously delighted the Government. Home Secretary Theresa May boasted about how much she had toughened up the rules, but perhaps in an attempt to forestall one potential criticism, stressed the fact that visas for university students had increased by three percent overall.

  • 22 Dec 2012
    400,000 people set to spend a second Christmas on the dole in the UK

    Over 400,000 people are set to spend their second successive Christmas on the dole according to new research published by the Trades Union Congress.

  • 21 Dec 2012
    Snooping on job seekers is risky and unfair

    British state plans to force unemployed people to look for work online and monitor them while they do so have been widely condemned. Privacy will be invaded, crime boosted and poor and disabled people victimised.

  • 2 Sep 2012
    Disability and poor health are preventing older people from working

    Disability and poor health are preventing some 500,000 people approaching retirement age from working, according to Trades Union Congress analysis.

  • 6 Feb 2012
    Workless families and welfare cuts

    “Britain’s social housing estates, once stepping stones of opportunity, are now ghettos for our poorest people,” Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, declared in 2009.

  • 19 Jan 2012
    Economic revival vital as unemployment soars, says TUC

    The latest UK-wide unemployment figures published on 18 January 2012 are even worse than previous bleak economic forecasts predicted.

  • 17 Jan 2012
    Working for no pay: the government’s muddled policies

    The government claims that its determined attempts to cut the living standards of the poor are necessary to cut public spending. Many have pointed out that the Welfare Reform Bill and other changes have immediate and long-term costs attached, so will not save nearly as much as is claimed. The rationale for harsh new measures looks even flimsier since it has emerged that the government is shelling out public money to take paid work away from the poor.

  • 15 Jan 2012
    Cuts to child tax credit result in more UK children thrown into poverty

    Shocking statistics from the End Child Poverty campaign show that nearly 60 per cent of children living in poverty have at least one parent who works.

  • 13 Dec 2011
    Low-paid workers hit worst by joblessness, research shows

    If they become unemployed, low-paid workers are most likely to be on the dole for more than six months, according to a new TUC analysis.

  • 21 Oct 2011
    Denying justice to least powerful

    The UK government is making it harder to challenge state decisions, the chair of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council has warned.