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The world of work is changing. Will 2025 be the tipping point for the four-day working week?
Sam Hunt

The world of work is changing. Will 2025 be the tipping point for the four-day working week?

Modern slavery is still rife in the UK – where do we go from here?
Helen Ball

Modern slavery is still rife in the UK – where do we go from here?

Dodgy landlords, DWP misery and our brilliant vendors: This is how Big Issue changed lives in 2024
2024

Dodgy landlords, DWP misery and our brilliant vendors: This is how Big Issue changed lives in 2024

‘The world needs more kindness’: People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025
Tommy Jessop, Aaron Plummer and Sas Granville

‘The world needs more kindness’: People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025

There’s no quick fix for single parent poverty but there is a clear first step – Labour must take it
Ruth Talbot

There’s no quick fix for single parent poverty but there is a clear first step – Labour must take it

We all deserve more money. Let me prove why it’s time for universal basic income
Zack Polanski

We all deserve more money. Let me prove why it’s time for universal basic income

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Rehabilitation

Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others

I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included
Olive Watt

I should have spent school preparing for the future. Instead I spent it fighting to be included

All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils
Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster

All we want for Christmas is for unpaid carers to be properly supported by the DWP and councils

The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys
Workers' rights

The dark side of Christmas: Inside the factories where children are forced to make gifts and toys

Can Christmas save Britain’s high streets? It’s complicated, experts say
High Street

Can Christmas save Britain’s high streets? It’s complicated, experts say

Universal credit advance payment: Bridging the five-week wait
Benefits

Universal credit advance payment: Bridging the five-week wait

DWP wants to reform benefits to cut costs, not help disabled people into work, court hears
Disability benefits

DWP wants to reform benefits to cut costs, not help disabled people into work, court hears

‘We all deserve magic’: Meet the teachers working to bring Christmas joy to children in poverty
Christmas

‘We all deserve magic’: Meet the teachers working to bring Christmas joy to children in poverty

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved. What does it mean for workers and the six-day service?
Royal mail

Royal Mail takeover by Czech billionaire approved. What does it mean for workers and the six-day service?

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer… How Gen Z must envy us!
Letters

Letters: Yes, it was really easy being a Boomer… How Gen Z must envy us!

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AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger
Iris Lim

AI was meant to make the DWP benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger

Community meals and workers’ rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats’ ‘ghost kitchens’?
Ghost Kitchens

Community meals and workers’ rights: What happens if councils seize Deliveroo and Uber Eats’ ‘ghost kitchens’?

DWP’s quiet plan to ‘keep Britain working’ might not win elections – but it could change lives
Asli Atay

DWP’s quiet plan to ‘keep Britain working’ might not win elections – but it could change lives

Scotland’s move to abolish poverty by ending two-child benefit cap must inspire Westminster
Sabine Goodwin

Scotland’s move to abolish poverty by ending two-child benefit cap must inspire Westminster