Bad news for Osborne as Britain is put on negative outlook
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
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A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
As job creation becomes a crucial issue in 2012, Channel 4 News looks behind the headlines at how the UK is faring in the first quarter of the year.
From the man heading up security for this summer’s Olympics to a self-proclaimed “Bra Queen”, we unveil the ambassadors helping us put together the Channel 4 Jobs Report.
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“Some people will be antagonised by any discussion of the fact that spiralling unemployment is hitting black people the hardest”, Diane Abbott wrote in today’s Guardian. And rightly so. But some people will be further antagonised by the possibility that Britain’s first black female MP may have got her facts wrong. Has she? FactCheck investigates.
As new data shows a third of recent graduates are in low-skilled jobs, one recruiter tells Channel 4 News that the flood of graduates has seen employers “raise the bar” and some jobs “remain hidden”.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the government is considering how to avoid the “unintended consequences” of planned changes which would see higher rate taxpayers stripped of child benefits.
With mortgage costs rising for 850,000 borrowers, housing campaigners are warning that poverty and homelessness are set to increase.
The government announces changes to its policy of docking young people’s benefits if they leave work experience placements after their first week.
Channel 4 News reporter Fatima Manji returns to the school she left just a few years ago to see how the class of 2012 are facing up to finding a job.
“Much like the French Foreign Legion, the scheme is “entirely voluntary” to enter, but there may be an element of compulsion later on if you decide to leave.”
Channel 4 News has been following Stephen Stubbs’ 15-month job hunt, and after 2,000 job applications Stephen can reveal he is no longer one of the UK’s 2.7 million unemployed people.
Nick Clegg is inviting charities and business to bid for a pot of £126m to get unemployed 16 and 17-year-olds into employment or education.
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis writes for Channel 4 News about why the euro crisis should not simply be seen through the prism of a famous Aesop fable.
With eurozone finance ministers discussing a second rescue package for indebted Greece, Channel 4 News analyses the terms of the deal.