learning and employment Archives

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benefits

Child tax credit: Do you qualify?

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Letters

Letters: I’m a disabled woman, aged 60. The DWP made me feel like a poor second-class citizen

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Ruth Patrick

Labour must actually bring change in 2025 – and that means changing its approach to benefits

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Susannah Copson

DWP’s bank account spying plan is an attack on the poor. It must be scrapped in 2025

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Sam Hunt

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

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Helen Ball

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

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2024

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

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Tommy Jessop, Aaron Plummer and Sas Granville

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

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Zack Polanski

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

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Rehabilitation

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

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Olive Watt

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

Claire Goodwin-Fee

Christmas is a punishing time if you work in the NHS. It’s pushing staff to the edge

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Ruth Hannan and Hannah Webster

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

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Workers' rights

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

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High Street

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

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Benefits

Universal credit advance payment: Bridging the five-week wait

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Christmas

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

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Royal mail

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

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