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Why did IDS keep his job despite welfare reform fiasco?

There were an awful lot of people hoping that Iain Duncan Smith would be defenestrated ...

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Flexibility or insecurity? The rise of the zero hours contract

Zero hours contracts - whereby workers agree to be available for work but have no ...

Communities Good Local Economics

The work programme is broken but the problem is much wider

The work programme clearly isn’t working but wider ranging reforms are required to make it ...

Communities Good Local Economics Regeneration

The emperor’s discarded clothes – and the work programme

Government needs a rethink, a u-turn that I don’t expect given how attached they are ...

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One tale from the dole queue

The reality is that the purpose of Jobcentre Plus is to stop benefit payments, not ...

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The real reasons firms will employ young talent

If I want to affect youth unemployment, the arguments I have to find are not ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Book review: How to Make a Million Jobs

His formula is the ‘intense long term planting of social enterprises in defined areas of ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Solutions come in small packages

However desirable it may sound, we cannot transform the life chances of a whole generation ...

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The street and social enterprise

Deliver a service, add value and people will do business with you. For all the ...

Communities Good Local Economics

Work Programme: early signs of progress?

It’s controversial and has already grabbed headlines for the wrong reasons – but is the ...