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Race, national security and wonky submarines
Jon Snow argues that far from being expendable, culture provides a significant chunk of cash to the economy as one of the UK’s ‘invisible exports’.
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“All your numbers are wrong,” former A4e boss Emma Harrison told Channel 4 News after leaked figures showed the company found work for four in 100 people. But official figures contradict her claims.
Jon Snow argues that far from being expendable, culture provides a significant chunk of cash to the economy as one of the UK’s ‘invisible exports’.
Labour are probably unwise to try to make too much political capital out of the lack of progress on this problem. To do so only invites comparisons with their own record, which is far from exemplary.
An independent inquiry into the state of care for people with schizophrenia and psychosis in England is calling for a radical overhaul of the system.
NHS Direct is to close most of its call centres with the loss of hundreds of nursing and other jobs, union leaders claim.
His place in history is already assured – but can a greyer, wiser Barack Obama, less crushed by expectation, finally live up to his promise as president?
He has been re-elected president, but Barack Obama now has another big challenge: the so-called “fiscal cliff”. Channel 4 News looks at what lies ahead.
With the US presidential candidates racing through the swing states, Channel 4 News looks through the eyes of Google and Twitter at the key issues that could determine Tuesday’s election outcome.
As the living wage rises from £7.20 to £7.45, Boris Johnson joins Labour in calling for more employers to boost low wages. But is it bad for business? Channel 4 News investigates.
“This week we have seen several different ‘Candidate Romneys.’ One makes wholesale assaults on Obama’s record; the next talks of bi-partisanship and how only he can bring America together.”
With the US election too tight to call, politicians hope A-list stars like Scarlett, Clint and Beyonce can convert fans into voters in a two-week overdose of bling politics.
DWP figures show that some 160 claimants out of more than 3 million were getting the equivalent of £50,000 a year or more in 2010. That’s 0.0004 per cent of cases.
The background The government launched the Work Programme in June last year, calling it the biggest welfare-to-work initiative in UK history. Is it working? With more than 2.5 million people unemployed, there’s a huge amount riding on that question. And the government now says it wants to export the same kind of model – outsourcing…
There are no hard statistics available on outcomes yet, which means we effectively have to take the minister’s word for it.
A study from the Medical Research Council suggests the global financial downturn has adversely impacted public health, with fear of unemployment leading to a decline in men’s mental wellbeing.