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How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income
Alison Hawdale

How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income

The idea of a basic income has gone from a pipe dream to being considered ‘inevitable’ and the advent of artificial intelligence has had a huge role to play, writes Ubasic income Lab Manchester’s Alison Hawdale – one of the campaigners trying to convince Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to introduce a basic income in the region

MS has left me virtually housebound – I fear what disability benefit reforms mean for my future
Charlotte Wright

MS has left me virtually housebound – I fear what disability benefit reforms mean for my future

Charlotte Wright, a 30-year-old from Bolton, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 19. She fears the government’s upcoming disability benefit reforms could prevent her – and others living with the condition – from getting outdoors

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
Benefits

DWP payment dates in March 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Here’s everything you need to know about the benefits and cost of living payments to expect from the DWP in March 2025

Government urged to stop using ‘personality tests’ in its hiring process: ‘Big barrier for autistic people’
Employment

Government urged to stop using ‘personality tests’ in its hiring process: ‘Big barrier for autistic people’

How Clement Attlee’s best intentions led to the problems we face today
John Bird

How Clement Attlee’s best intentions led to the problems we face today

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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
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
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?
Marvyn Harrison

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

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

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

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

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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

DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an ‘assault’ on the ‘disabled, sick and elderly’
Benefit fraud

DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an ‘assault’ on the ‘disabled, sick and elderly’

Labour warned ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ over plan to ‘help’ neurodivergent people on benefits into work
Employment

Labour warned ‘one size doesn’t fit all’ over plan to ‘help’ neurodivergent people on benefits into work