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The unemployment rate remained at 3.6% in May – the lowest unemployment rate since 1969 – according to the latest report released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This marked the fifteenth month with the unemployment rate at or below 4%. ABC...

Sustain, are running a campaign to raise awareness of the lack of take-up of Healthy Start vouchers. These vouchers are available for pregnant mums and babies and can be used to buy fruit, vegetables, milk and infant formula. An estimated £28.6m wort...

The causes of NI’s serious waiting list backlog have been well documented. Waiting times have been escalating since 2014, as pressures on the health budget meant limited funding was available to suppress waiting time growth. Significant and sustained...

US total nonfarm payroll employment edged up in May (+75,000), and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment continued to trend up in professional and business services and in health...

Up to 116,000 carers will benefit from the Carer’s Support Grant from today. The annual grant of €1,700 is available to all carers providing full-time care to an older person or a person with a disability, regardless of their means or social insuranc...

Today the ONS has released an article which looks at rates of persistent poverty for the UK and compares this to other EU countries. People are defined as being in poverty if they live in a household with an equivalised disposable income that falls b...

Private firms will be given £600 million pounds by the Department for Work and Pensions - to assess disabled people for benefits. Extending contracts with Atos and Maximus has been widely criticized after enormous numbers of complaints about the way...

The government has estimated that it would cost a total of £181.4bn to reverse the state pension age (SPA) for women back to 60 between now and 2025/26.A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) report found that it would cost £188.4bn in additional st...

The DWP regularly declare people 'Fit to Work' who clearly are not. As many as 90 people a month are dying having been declared 'Fit to Work'.  A man who has an incurable form of bone marrow cancer had benefit payments stopped after  Mr Gof...

The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D. has welcomed the latest statistics published by the CSO today which show that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May 2019 was 4.4% The seasonally adjusted numb...