The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the UK’s inflation, fell to 2.7% in the year to August, down from 2.8% in July.
If Job Centres cannot find more work for the unemployed and underemployed and George Osborne is proposing to freeze or reduce the minimum wage, then how can people earn more to get off benefits?
The DWP has introduced “emergency legislation” in an attempt to avoid the Court of Appeal’s “Poundland ruling” which found almost all the government’s “work-for-your-benefit” employment schemes unlawful.
Ed Balls and Liam Byrne are calling for a compulsory Jobs Guarantee for long-term unemployed adults. In an article for PoliticsHome Ed…
Today’s headline fall in unemployment will be welcome news for thousands of striving families really feeling the pinch this Christmas.…