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Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'
Four-day working week

Bring in a four-day work week to beat Reform in next election, Labour told: 'There's no catch here'

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration
builders
Housebuilding

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits
dwp
Benefits

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits

First Dates star Fred Sirieix: 'I left France because I loved punk'
Letter To My Younger Self

First Dates star Fred Sirieix: 'I left France because I loved punk'

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled
Employment

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled

How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees
Refugees

How the Alsama Project grew from a small Lebanese flat to educate hundreds of teen refugees

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?
Work

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?

Why are self-employed dads like me being forced to make an impossible choice?
man and baby's hand
Marvyn Harrison

Why are self-employed dads like me being forced to make an impossible choice?

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?
Artificial intelligence

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?
Starmer and Phillipson at a school
Dr Sara Reis

Children are poor because their mothers are poor. But is Labour serious about tackling it?

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'
Police holding crowds back from the Home Office vehicle.
Immigration

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'

Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'
DWP minister Liz Kendall
Benefits

Liz Kendall blasted for 'fuelling fear' after saying benefits claimants are 'taking the mickey'

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests
Workplace inclusion

'It's devastating': UK's biggest companies locking autistic people out of jobs with personality tests

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of the autumn budget 2024
Jobs

Big UK businesses are slashing thousands of jobs. Just how much trouble are we in?

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'
Andy Burnham and Rachel Reeves at Manchester Victoria Station
Universal basic income

Inside the plan to give free cash to homeless people in Manchester: 'It's time to try something new'

Letters: We're all 'economically active' whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP
Letters

Letters: We're all 'economically active' whether working or not – even my dog contributes to GDP

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming'
Artist Stuart Semple
Art

Artist Stuart Semple on why education in the arts needs an urgent reset: 'It's like battery farming'

No, Gen Z aren't lazy workers – they just don't want your jobs
A young person slouches while working on a MacBook
Rose Marley

No, Gen Z aren't lazy workers – they just don't want your jobs

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'
Disability benefits

DWP blasted for blowing half a million pounds defending disability benefit cuts: 'What a failure'

Uncertainty around disability benefit cuts is triggering bipolar symptoms, experts warn
Simon Kitchen

Uncertainty around disability benefit cuts is triggering bipolar symptoms, experts warn

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