Why welfare is a vote winner for Scottish independence
Some of the biggest and boldest promises being made by the Scottish yes campaign are on welfare – but can Scotland afford to be fairer for those on benefits?
The Prime Minister said that under Labour, 1.4 million people spent most of the last decade on out-of-work benefits. But she didn’t mention that many of those people were on disability or illness benefits.
Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green discusses the disability issue. He was officially giving interviews on today’s unemployment figures – which have fallen to their lowest level in a decade – so we started there.
If some workers are having to dig deep to save their jobs, Britain’s labour market appears to be booming, with more people in work than ever before and unemployment at its lowest level in over a decade.
Forget the traditional image of the family breadwinner. One in four low-paid men now works part time, thanks to the changing nature of the British workforce.
A Leeds University survey finds 55 per cent of students still unsure about who to vote for. Jon Snow, once a youthful firebrand himself, is in Leeds to see what this generation has on their minds
Nigel Farage sparks a Twitter row after calling to scrap “much of” race discrimination legislation in a Channel 4 documentary, due to be shown next week.
Young people out of work, education or training for more than six months could be made to do unpaid community work to get their benefits, Prime Minister David Cameron says.
Men have been hit the hardest and suffered the biggest falls in wages as a result of the financial crisis, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
David Cameron says lowering the benefit cap will be the first thing he does if he is re-elected in May, arguing it has succeeded in getting people into work. Has it?
Young adults and those in work are more likely to be in poverty than pensioners in Britain, a new report reveals.
University graduates paying as much as £926 a month without earning a penny are living in a “wild west” culture of free labour, a graduate expert tells Channel 4 News.
Unemployment falls by 146,000 to 2.02 million – with the latest official figures showing the largest annual drop in a quarter of a century.
Some of the biggest and boldest promises being made by the Scottish yes campaign are on welfare – but can Scotland afford to be fairer for those on benefits?
As joblessness continues to fall, self-employment has reached record levels. But there is concern about the types of jobs being created.
The risk of fraudulent, misleading and confusing ads appearing on the government’s Universal Jobmatch website is higher than private equivalents, according to the National Audit Office.