Rayhan Haque Articles

The past few months have been a crucial and testing time for the people of Somalia. A fierce battle is currently raging across the land that has pitted the fragile government forces and regional powers against the brutally oppressive militia of the extreme Al-Shabaab...

One of the first schemes the coalition government had in their firing line upon assuming office, was the Future Jobs Fund. The fund primarily protected 18-24 year olds who had been unemployed for six months or longer through offers of real jobs, together with a...

Could a national Graduate Employment Service be part of a new welfare settlement, asks Rayhan Haque The graduate generation has found the welfare system wanting. Unemployment for recent graduates is at a 10-year high, with almost 20 per cent of those actively...

The government's Work Programme is now up and running around the country, getting Britain's long-term unemployed and workless back into work. Many have highlighted the labour market's critical importance to the programme. While they are right to do so, it is not the...