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Unemployment

July 2024

  • A Jobcentre Plus sign on the outside of a building

    Integrate NHS services and job centres to get more people working, report says

    Exclusive: Pioneering study says regime based largely on benefit sanctions has failed to tackle economic inactivity

June 2024

  • A lime-green-coloured Jobcentre Plus sign

    UK unemployment rising at fastest pace of OECD countries, analysis shows

    TUC says only Costa Rica had similar increase in first quarter as ONS data expected to show further rise in April

May 2024

  • A young man gets behind the wheel of a pickup truck. There is someone in the passenger seat and three people in the truck bed.

    South Africa: a nation at the crossroads – in pictures

  • Jeremy Hunt and Mel Stride in the House of Commons last October, sitting together on the benches; Stride has his hand on Hunt's shoulder and is congratulating him after his autumn budget speech. Both wear dark suits with white shirts and blue ties.

    Jeremy Hunt and Mel Stride warn against benefits ‘lifestyle choice’

April 2024

  • A doctor looks at mammogram results with a magnifying glass.

    Lower-income US women more likely to miss key breast cancer test, study finds

    Isolation and lack of health insurance also correlate to reduced mammogram rates for breast cancer

March 2024

  • Will Hutton

    Ignore the rightwing moaners. We don’t have 9m shirkers – they just want better work

    Will Hutton
  • Barbara Ellen

    Creatives are leaving London, and for the first time I understand why

    Barbara Ellen
  • Rishi Sunak in Swindon.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak suffers defeats in House of Lords over Rwanda bill – as it happened

  • The back of a woman on an upper floor balcony

    Today in Focus
    Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?

February 2024

  • Young woman sitting on a bench looking down at night<br>Unhappy blonde girl sitting on a bench in the street at night looking down with hair covering her face. Focus on the foreground with bokeh of streetlights in the background. Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava province, Basque Country, Spain, Europe.

    People in 20s more likely to be out of work because of poor mental health than those in early 40s

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles

    Larry Elliott
  • Headset on laptop keyboard, with no person in sight.

    ‘Breathtaking’ media layoffs continue with job cuts at NowThis and Intercept

  • Older white man, dyed brown hair combover, glasses in black suit with pale green tie in front of press background that says "The Hollywood Reporter."

    ‘I just got laid off’: news startup the Messenger abruptly shutters after a year

January 2024

  • Tara Cousins in orange reflective jacket

    Young people in UK having to refuse jobs due to high costs, report finds

    Prince’s Trust survey reveals cost of living crisis is having ‘stark consequences’ for aspirations of entire generation

December 2023

  • A person laces their running shoes

    People on long-term sick leave in England to be offered therapeutic recreation

    Jobcentres, doctors, employers and social workers will be encouraged to suggest therapy and life coaching
  • Girl with long hair walking through garden

    ‘Wearying and depressing’: ill young people tell why work is not an option

    Three unemployed people explain how they feel targeted by the Tories over their inability to join the workforce
  • Young woman sitting on a windowsill looking outside

    More than 500,000 under-35s in UK out of work due to long-term illness

    Experts link 44% increase in four years to a growing mental health crisis and underinvestment in health services

November 2023

  • Unemployment figures<br>File photo dated 17/02/16 of a Job Centre Plus, as Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the Office for National Statistics, has said: "Employment and unemployment both rose again in the first three months of 2023, driven in particular by men. PA Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 16, 2023. "This means the number of those neither working nor looking for work continues to fall, although the number of people not working due to long-term sickness rose again, to a new record. See PA story ECONOMY Unemployment. Photo credit should read: Philip Toscano/PA Wire

    Young people in the UK: are you unable to work due to longterm illness?

    We would like to speak to under-30s in the UK who are unable to work because of a longterm health condition
  • Female entrepreneur walking with disabled businesswoman in corridor at workplace

    Jeremy Hunt is punishing the sick with this welfare crackdown

    Letters: Stephen Butler, Carolyn Sutton, Debbie Cameron respond to benefits changes in the autumn statement. Plus a letter from a reader who highlights the structural difficulties disabled people face in the workplace
  • Jeremy Hunt in the House of Commons

    Unemployed who ‘refuse to engage’ could lose benefits in Hunt crackdown

    Chancellor to launch £2.5bn ‘back to work plan’ in autumn statement aimed at increasing workforce participation
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