work and welfare Articles

This time last year, David Cameron was mocking Ed Miliband for advocating ‘predistribution’. Ed argued for a move away from an approach to low pay based purely on top-ups through the tax and welfare systems towards one in which welfare becomes less necessary as...

Labour should commit to slashing the number of young people not in work or education. Graeme Cooke suggests how More than one in seven 16-to-24-year-olds – over a million young people – are not in education, employment or training in the UK. Rather than developing...

A year ago at Labour party conference, Harriet Harman launched Labour’s Commission on Older Women. This responded to the emergence of a new generation of active older women in their fifties and sixties who have led very different lives from their mothers. These are...

There is a cost of living crisis facing millions across the UK. The signs are clear to all – the weekly shop is more expensive, the energy bill never seems to stop rising and day-to-day living expenditure like travel is becoming unaffordable. And the overarching...