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The government’s aim to look at how policy affects the family is pure hypocrisy, writes Sadie Robinson

Labour activists are reacting with fury at Ed Miliband’s plans to ban jobless young people from claiming benefits.

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For the first time unemployed workers could have their benefits cut off for up to three years if they refuse jobs with zero hours contracts.

People who have been unemployed for more than two years face punishing new rules from Monday of this week.

Management at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) want to get rid of customer phones in job centres and eventually replace them with computers. They also plan to downgrade and cut the floor walker role.

The Tories could be forced to scrap their job search website Universal Jobmatch.

The notion that immigration is putting workers' wages under pressure is widely accepted even among some on the left. Yet this argument is both dangerous and wrong.

The government’s attacks on benefits include cutting off people’s money often for the pettiest of reasons. Dave Sewell looks at the reality of sanctions

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