Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Friday’s non-farm payrolls exceeded expectations once again, sending U.S. stock markets to new records. The dollar also rose as investors predicted an upcoming rate rise by the Federal Reserve. But Strategas’ Don Rissmiller does...

Tips for job searching using Universal Jobmatch Here are 4 tips for helping you to search for a job using Universal Jobmatch. Top tip 1 - get the most from search filters: Maximise the accuracy of your search by using a combination of job title, skil...

National Careers Week (NCW) is a celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people le...

From Monday CPAG in Scotland, the Poverty Truth Commission and One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS) will take to social media asking parents to share their views on what it really costs to get a child suited, booted and ready to return to school. They...

As the Rio Olympics get underway, SNP MSP James Dornan has called for Scottish Athletics to embrace the Scottish Living Wage – ensuring that the staff supporting the next generation of Olympians are paid a fair wage. Mr Dornan has written to Ma...

Freedom of Information (FO!) requests are a good way to learn about DWP policies. How many DWP employees are claiming Universal Credit? DWP employees who are also UC claimants are not required to let their employer know that they are claiming UC. Emp...

Nearly 3,000 recruitment agencies launched in first half of 2016. Some 2,926 new recruitment agencies launched in the first half of 2016: a 10% increase on the number of agencies launched in the same period in 2015. This is no doubt a factor in what...

Ever feel you have been had over. This graph says a lot.  Wage growth is a key factor in determining living standards, aggregate demand and inflation. Since the great recession of 2008, nominal wage growth has fallen behind the headline inflatio...

There is concern over whether Thersa May will maintain the triple lock protection on the value of the state pension – after the former pensions minister joined one of the Prime Minister’s most senior advisors in calling for it to end. Pro...

The hated Workfare Scheme run by the DWP,  forced over 100,000 people to work for nothing, was covered up by the DWP, who did not want the names of the companies or organizations revealed, fearing an economic backlash. The High Court has ruled t...