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If you want to know what the future holds we have included this presentation by the Office of Budget Responsibility.  You can download the whole report below which makes for some interesting reading.  Shares in Next dived 9% as the retailer...

Please find this booklet below on the Citizens Basic Income. According to Wikipedia: A basic income (also called unconditional basic income, Citizen's Income, basic income guarantee, universal basic income or u...

Mechanisation. Robots. The digital economy. The gig economy. The sharing economy. The world of work is changing but our creaky welfare system is still based on a 20th-century model of work, designed when soldiers were returning from fighting World Wa...

The High Pay Centre, a think tank that studies corporate pay has designated today as Fat Cat Wednesday. Why Wednesday? Because, according to the group, “after just two and a half days [in 2017], Britain’s top bosses will have made mo...

CNN Money's Heather Long and Poppy Harlow report that Ford is cancelling a Mexico plant and creating 700 American jobs as a "vote of confidence" in Donald Trump. But Columbia journalism professor Bill Grueskin isn't impressed, tweeting,&nbs...

Discrimination in the workplace is an isolating and traumatic experience but a Bury St Edmunds victim has chosen to speak out after he won a tribunal case against his former employer. For 25-year-old Andrew Everitt, who has autism, it stopped him goi...

Mhairi Black vows to be “thorn in the side of UK government” over benefit sanctions Mhairi Black has today (3rd January) vowed to be “a thorn in the side” of the UK Government over the “horrific and unfair” benefit...

Finland is about to launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of 2,000–3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly basic income of 560 euros (approx. $600). That basic income will replace their...

The widening gap between rich and poor around the world is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to explode into social and economic unrest if left unchecked, Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said on Thursday. The banking and financial system has cre...

SCOTLAND is facing a further £2 billion austerity bombshell as Tory cuts to social security harm the most vulnerable and tax giveaways to the wealthy leave under-pressure services starved of vital funds. The cash will be ripped away from Scots...