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Today’s figures show an unexpected welcome fall in unemployment, youth unemployment, and a small rise in the claimant count – over the next few months C4 News will continue telling the story of jobs in Britain with a series of reports for the Channel 4 Jobs Report (#c4jobs).
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”.
Jackie Long
Employment Minister Chris Grayling is planning a tougher work-experience system for young people… but will unemployed graduates feel the benefit?
Jackie Long
As hundreds of thousands of students receive their A-level results, Social Affairs Editor Jackie Long blogs on how the world that students will be entering has changed in the last few decades.
Transcripts from the House of Commons can be quietly edited if politicians’ claims are proved wrong. But the public rarely hears an apology. Here are ten incorrect claims we discovered which were made by government ministers. They were all corrected afterwards – but often not for weeks.
Jon Snow
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
David Cameron’s policy chief apologises for blaming riots in black urban communities on “bad moral attitudes” in a memo written in the 1980s.
Ethnic minority voters have traditionally favoured Labour with their support. But in an age of social media, competition for their votes is increasing, writes Toby Bakare.
Who were the heroes and villains of 2014 for Channel 4 News’s award-winning FactCheck blog?
Police release video of an “airborne battalion of anarchists”, using Parkour to evade capture in a recent riot. Welcome to Greece as its parliament prepares to elect a president.
Three-year-old Abdel Karim suffered a relapse after treatment of his brain tumour was delayed by Israeli authorities, who suspect his Gaza family of involvement in clashes with Israeli forces.
As youth unemployment in Italy reaches a new all-time high of 40.1 per cent, our newest “Austerity Kid”, Agata Scionti, 26, tells Channel 4 News that young Italians “are unable to dream any more”.
It is 50 years since Martin Luther King delivered his ‘I have a dream’ speech. But Jonathan Miller finds that there is still a long way to go before his dream is realised in his hometown of Atlanta.
Alex Thomson
With Iran’s new president set to be inaugurated on Sunday, how will he tackle a list of woes including ever-present sanctions and fears over its nuclear aspirations?
Britain should only take immigrants from rich European countries – a move that would cut Portuguese, Greeks and Poles out of the UK’s open labour market – according to the head of think tank Demos.