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USA - The number of people who experienced some unemployment during 2018 declined by 1.3 million to 13.2 million. Their share of those who worked or looked for work during the year fell by 0.8 percentage point to 7.8 percent in 2018. That was the low...

BBC - A clip of Neil imploring the PM to appear for an interview - something all other party leaders have done - has been widely shared, and viewed almost 4 million times on Twitter alone (more than the initial viewing figures for Corbyn's interview)...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia issued the following statement on the November 2019 Employment Situation report: "The November jobs report vastly outpaced predictions, with 266,000 jobs created. With 41,000 jobs in upward...

POLITICS - Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell has joined disabled campaigners in backing calls for a criminal probe into the actions of former Tory ministers and senior civil servants, following the publication of a five-year investigation int...

SANCTIONS - A man who had to have both legs amputated due to sepsis has been left without benefits after he said he missed two work capability assessments. Richard Connett, 55, has not received his employment and support allowance since Sep...

JOURNALISM - We decided to reproduce this article. It points to the importance of alternative media that sets out to report the facts not the lies that are perpetrated in a deliberate and organised fashion. As Andrew Marr's interview with the To...

BENEFITS INJUSTICE - A Sidmouth cancer patient, who relies on food bank hand-outs to feed her and her teenage daughter, has been told she doesn't qualify for more benefit support. Widowed Cancer Patient Forced to Rely on Food Bank Hand-Outs Refused U...

LEGAL - A law graduate is taking the government to court to challenge the way decisions on benefit claims are made, arguing it breaches human rights laws. Michael Connor, from Little Haywood in Staffordshire, says some people must rely on handouts if...

PAYMENT DATES - In case you are wondering when your benefits will be paid over Christmas, this information should help Dates for all key benefits Attendance Allowance, State Pension, Carer’s Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Employment and Supp...

TELEVISION - Following tonight’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme, the SNP has said this should be a wake-up call for the next UK government who must take urgent action to tackle the child poverty crisis - by immediately reversing the Tories’ brut...