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17 May 2012
Work programme not reducing long-term unemployment
Unemployment statistics published yesterday show that the number of people who have been unemployed for more than one year is up 27,000 in the last three months, reaching a total of 887,000...
25 April 2012
The ugly truth behind the latest unemployment figures
A slight fall in the most recent set of unemployment figures hides the reality facing millions. The fall has only occurred because of an increase in part-time work. And the number of people claiming unemployment...
18 April 2012
Clegg's text message plans make us LOL!
Unemployment continues to plague austerity Britain. Over 2.6 million people are out of work. And we're disproportionately aged under 25, writes James Ivens.
11 April 2012
DWP tells young people to bail out big business
When I last visited the Jobcentre I was given two letters. I was told I should attach them to any CVs or job applications I sent out, writes a job seeker.
Riots: rioters and police in Tottenham during August 2011 disturbances , photo by Paul Mattsson
4 April 2012
Britain in 2012 is a ruthless 'them and us' society. Millionaire ministers dish out life-destroying cuts to working class and young people while doing the bidding of their super-rich pals in big business...
Anti-workfare protest in Bristol, 3.3.12
2 April 2012
Clegg's 'youth contract' won't create real, long-term jobs
Nick Clegg launched his long touted Youth Contract today, offering "incentives" to bosses who take a young person on
21 March 2012
No to workfare - fight for a genuine alternative
Cait Reilly, one of the young people forced to work for free under the existing schemes is in the process of a judicial review of the government's workfare policies, writes Paul Callanan
Workfare protest targets A4e, photo Socialist Party
7 March 2012
The welfare state is now a lucrative business - Emma Harrison's contract as A4e chief was worth around £200 million
1 March 2012
Following retreats by the government on its flagship ‘work experience’ schemes, YFJ has called a 'day of action' on Budget Day and is calling for trade unions and anti-workfare campaigns to jointly discuss organising a mass demo against slave labour in the summer
29 February 2012
Interview with a jobcentre worker
What workfare really means: Workfare is a catch-all term used to describe the various unpaid work schemes the government operates through the Department for Work and Pensions
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