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Work Routes is a scheme tasked with getting more than 5,000 people back into employment A scheme to get the long-term unemployed back into work across the south east has been given a £9 million boost. Work Routes, a scheme to help those who ha...

As Book Week Scotland draws to a close, figures sourced by SPICe have revealed that over 83% of primary school children have signed up to participate in the First Minister’s Reading Challenge. The initiative, backed by the Scottish Reading Trus...

It is ABC founder Simon Collyer’s birthday today: November 25th.  **** I would just like to say a special thank you to all those who have helped me found the ABC and this includes Christopher Johnson - a finer friend no one could have. Wit...

South Africa is close to getting a minimum wage.  A report by a government-appointed panel of experts (128-page / 2.65 MB PDF), has proposed setting the minimum wage at ZAR 3,500 ($248) per month, or an hourly rate of ZAR 20 ($1.41). The re...

There were 857,000 young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET), an increase of 14,000 from April to June 2016 and up 3,000 from a year earlier. The percentage of all young people in the UK who were...

The new £5 note was issued on Tuesday 13 September. The New Fiver is the first note to be made from polymer, a flexible plastic material, and it features Sir Winston Churchill. You can continue to spend paper £5 n...

Have you ever complained about to cost of fuel? Here is an interesting table that gives some food for thought. The Index starts in 2010 at 100 and you can see that prices have actually fallen recently, in the post-recession period. Petroleum costs ar...

Not quite ready to join the BREXIT crowd? EURES is the European Job Seekers portal. The website is full of useful information about working in EU countries.  The purpose of EURES is to provide information, advice and recruitment/placement (job-m...

Continuing to bring down the deficit 1. New economic forecast The UK economy is forecast to be the fastest growing major economy in 2016, but the Office for Budget Responsibility has forecast growth to slow and inflation to rise over the next two yea...

A very moving talk about austerity and benefit cuts. Jack Monroe (born 1988, Southend-on-Sea) is a writer, journalist and activist who has campaigned over poverty issues, particularly hunger relief, and has published a blog and several books of...