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  • Dozen Labour MPs push for four-day week to be included in Government’s flagship Employment Right’s Bill - LFF 11.02.25456993
  • How expensive are workers’ rights? - New Statesman 22.10.24437597
  • Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today - Conversation 16.09.24434923
  • Retirement anxiety: do you really need $1.46m to have a happy old age? - Guardian 03.04.24405587
  • Millions of working class UK households suffer 18 percent cut to incomes in space of five years - WSWS 14.02.24400071
  • The Tories just ‘ducked’ the issue of AI’s impact on workers – surprise, surprise from Agent Sunak - Canary 07.02.24397314
  • Britain's shame: More than 120,000 children 'destitute' - Morning Star 18.08.23367605
  • Trade unions warn workers will continue to struggle as inflation falls - LFF 16.08.23366367
  • UK economy falters as outlook darkens - New Vision 13.07.2023358970
  • First cohort of Bangladeshis recruited for seasonal work in UK farm sector - UNB 27.06.23355731
  • 'Our businesses are desperate for foreign workers' - BBC News 13.06.2023351934
  • IMF forecasts UK economic growth in major U-turn - Tuko 23.05.23347226
  • Critics say £1bn for UK chip industry not enough - BBC News 19.05.23346731
  • Campaigners demand end to rise in state pension age at protest - LFF 03.05.23344453
  • UK Social Security Should Guarantee Adequate Living Standard - HRW 19.04.23341931
  • Why US banking collapse matters - BBC News 14.03.23335071
  • UK risks falling behind Poland, says Labour - BBC News 26.02.23331944
  • Four-day workweek trial in UK: Shorter hours, happier employees - Al Jazeera 21.02.23330993
  • Revealed: record number of households in UK depending on food banks - Guardian 19.02.23331519
  • Why is UK economy lagging behind other rich nations? - BBC News 18.02.23330361
  • Here’s a full list of this week’s national and local strikes, including the NHS - Canary 06.02.23328208
  • UK economy only G7 nation to shrink in 2023 - IMF - BBC News 31.01.23327785
  • Teachers’ pay cut by £6,600 since 2010, says Institute for Fiscal Studies - Guardian 12.01.23328107
  • As Britain’s workers reach their limits, the government has no option but to negotiate - Guardian 11.12.22319336
  • Number of unemployed over-50s surges in ‘silver exodus’ from UK workplaces - The Guardian 21.08.22304115
  • P&O Ferries will not face criminal proceedings for mass sacking of staff - Guardian 20.08.22310247
  • Petition to protect the right to strike garners thousands of signatures - Left Foot Forward 31.07.22298148
  • DWP is denying 1.5 million people the £650 cost of living payment - Canary 14.07.22295450
  • UK strikes: six milestones in the history of industrial action in Britain - Conversation 05.07.22293858
  • Why the UK is in a race to outrun persistent inflation - New Statesman 29.06.22293316
  • Over-50s are resigning en masse – new research explains who and why - The Conversation 28.04.22284800
  • Why government plans to ditch promised new workers’ rights laws should worry us all - Left Foot Forward 04.04.22281459
  • Resistance builds against ‘government-made’ cost of living crisis - Left Foot Forward 02.04.22281460
  • The truth about the ‘great resignation’ – who changed jobs, where they went and why - Conversation 28.03.22280645
  • UK job vacancies reach 20-year high - BBC 12.10.21257698
  • UK food firms beg ministers to let them use prisoners to ease labour shortages - Guardian 23.08.21253517
  • The government has lost control of health and safety in Britain’s workplaces - Left Foot Forward 23.02.21236363
  • It's now clear this government wants UK workers to have as little power as possible - Guardian 15.01.21233361
  • 'It shouldn't be happening': the businesses providing free meals in England - Guardian 30.10.20233236
  • Neglected key workers - why is the NHS so slow at tackling racism? - Open Democracy 07.08.20213882
  • More than one in four UK workers now furloughed - BBC 09.06.20209243
  • The Guardian view on the DWP: failing the vulnerable - Guardian 06.03.20200818
  • Universal Credit linked to mental health problems for 63,674 people, study finds - Independant 28.02.20200265
  • Video: Jeremy Corbyn pledges Labour government would expand free childcare to all 2-4 year olds and open 1,000 new Sure Start centres - Independent 09.11.19200004
  • Owen Jones: Food banks shouldn’t even exist. Don’t let them become the new normal - Guardian 24.04.18181063
  • Report: THE KIDS AREN’T ALRIGHT A new approach to tackle the challenges faced by young people in the UK labour market - Resolution Foundation 02.18 .pdf181064
  • Report: The Living Standards Outlook 2018 - Resolution Foundation 22.02.18181067
  • Poorer Britons face three years of income stagnation, says report - Guardian 22.02.18181068
  • Report: An unhealthy interest: debt distress and the consequences of raising rates - Resolution Foundation 02/18 .pdf181071
  • Most children in UK's poorest areas now growing up in poverty - Guardian 24.01.18181072
  • Report: Problem debt and low-income households - Institute for Fiscal Studies 01/18 .pdf181075
  • Quarter of UK's poorest households are getting deeper in debt, IFS warns - Guardian 16.01.18181076
  • Birmingham and doing the work nobody else wants to do - Open Democracy UK 09.01.18181079
  • Report: UK Poverty 2017 - Joseph Rowntree Foundation 04.12.17181080
  • Not fade away Industrial policy cannot ignore Britain’s lower paid, less productive and less glamorous industries - New Economics Foundation 16.11.17181083
  • Car finance: the fast lane to debt? - Guardian 19.09.17181084
  • Larry Elliot: UK debt is explosive – and it only needs a spark to light the fuse - Guardian 18.09.17181087
  • Britain's debt time​bomb: FCA urges action over £200bn crisis - Guardian 18.09.17181088
  • Fact Check: does immigration have an impact on wages or employment? - The Conversation 13.09.17181091
  • The long shadow of the financial crisis - Citizens Advice 30.08.17181092
  • We need to sort out public sector pay – but it’s not all about the money - New Economics Foundation 17.07.17181095
  • Owen Jones: The Taylor review could make things worse for workers. What a surprise - Guardian 11.07.17181096
  • The Taylor Review does not offer enough for those at the sharp end of modern employment - New Economics Foundation 11.07.17181099
  • Report: Good work: the Taylor review of modern working practices - Gov.uk 11.07.17181100
  • Employment rights are only as strong as your ability to enforce them - Citizens Advice 14.06.17181104
  • How the old idea of the living wage has been embraced by the political establishment - The Conversation 06.06.17181107
  • Whether it’s employment or housing, insecurity hits the under 25s the most - Citizens Advice Bureau 06.03.17181108
  • Cabinet papers remind us of Thatcherism’s ongoing legacy - LFF 07.01.2014279977
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