The labour market in 2013 – what’s in store?
Richard Exell looks at what the labour market has in store for 2013.
Green Politics
Making work pay: Balls announces compulsory jobs guarantee for long-term unemployed
Ed Balls today set out plans for a compulsory jobs guarantee for the long-term unemployed – ensuring there is a job for every adult who is long-term unemployed.
Boris’s budget is an insult to Londoners
Labour London Assembly Group budget spokesperson John Biggs AM responds to London Mayor Boris Johnson’s budget.
Hezza set to launch Greater Birmingham Project – but will Cameron and co. back him up?
Lord Heseltine will launch the Greater Birmingham Project today – but the question is, will the government actually back him up?
Happy New Year! And here’s the coalition outlook for 2013: grim with no plan for growth
IPPR’s Tony Dolphin offers his outlook for 2013 and damns the lack of vision on the part of the coalition’s economic plan for the year ahead.
New research shows 400,000 people will spend a second successive Christmas on the dole
TUC research demonstrates further hardship for many in one of the most financially difficult times of the year; meanwhile, the government refuses to help.
Energy companies must come clean about their costs and the impact they have on bills
Ed Davey needs to ensure total transparency from energy companies about their costs and the impacts on bills, writes IPPR’s Reg Platt.
Is poor customer service at the Revenue costing us money?
We need to know whether HMRC’s poor customer service in not answering the phone is reducing tax revenues and increasing collection costs.
High inflation set to continue into 2014
The stubborn nature of inflation stops the Bank of England from acting, pushes living costs further up and is seemingly ignored by the government.
On carbon, why is George so hung up on the fax and not the facts?
Will Tim Yeo’s amendment on carbon make it into the Energy Bill – or will George Osborne again thwart the green path?