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Details of the new social security benefits being introduced by the Scottish Government following the introduction of new devolved powers are to be outlined in the Scottish Parliament. Social Security Secretary Angela Constance will on Tuesday announ...

New payday loan regulations come into force on Friday, requiring all online lenders to advertise on at least one price comparison website. The CMA says the new rules will: Allow customers to compare loans more easily, to establish the best value Give...

Brian Tracy tells it how it is. We hope this video will assist you plan your future, increase your wealth and increase your happiness.  

The New Economics Foundation have been considering the impact a fund owned by the public could have on the UK.  Implemented correctly, a sovereign wealth fund could have a hugely positive impact on our economy, as seen in other countries around...

Last year GMB won a landmark employment tribunal against Uber, which ruled that its drivers were not self-employed contractors but employed workers - and were therefore entitled to the national minimum wage, sickness and holiday pay. Uber's license t...

The Australian Fabians are putting together a collection of new progressive policy ideas to be launched at the NSW Labor conference on July 29, 2017. The Fabians want to get people talking and thinking big about the challenges facing their commu...

 There has been a revision down to 0.2% for GDP growth in the first quarter of 2017, which the Office for National Statistics says reflects household spending slowing down. The TUC are saying: “The next government will inherit an economy t...

Don’t Join the Army’ is a project of Veterans for Peace UK. The organization says that it is a response to the Army’s consistently misleading and exploitative recruitment campaigns aimed at young people. Army recruitment has fr...

Theresa May starts to look vulnerable: For the second time in as many months, the prime minister made a u-turn, this time over a policy that would require comfortably off pensioners to contribute from their assets to the cost of their care in old age...

The BBC have said that Labour will "in effect" end the freeze on benefits through a package of reforms in its "first Budget", the shadow chancellor has said. John McDonnell said his proposals would make the freeze "irrelevant", but did not say whethe...