Unemployment Follow

This week Tory chancellor George Osborne proclaimed the British economy is in "recovery". However, the grim reality for many in Tory Britain is unemployment, low pay, pensioner poverty, and an ever?growing class divide.

A drop in official unemployment figures can’t be allowed to mask the fact that the recession has allowed bosses to expand ways of exploiting new workers.

Tory chancellor's latest round of benefit cuts attacks the poorest in society, writes Simon Basketter

The Tories say falling unemployment shows that the crisis isn’t so bad. But unprecedented attacks on pay tell a different story, writes Annette Mackin

The new Universal Credit benefit could include a mechanism for landlords to chase up rent arrears.

Judges have ruled that disability benefit tests disadvantage people with mental heath problems. 

The government claims that its benefits changes will help those out of work. But Annette Mackin looks at how the cuts hurt both workers and claimants

People seeking work are being made to search for jobs for 35 hours a week—on pain of losing their benefits. 

People aged 18-24 are now more likely to be unemployed than they were before the recession, according to analysis by the TUC. 

Tory ministers refer to places in which “three generations of the same family have never worked”. But there’s little proof that such families exist.

Last week could have been a disaster for the government’s workfare programme. It sends unemployed people to toil for free – and takes away their benefits if they refuse.

Over 60 demonstrations against austerity and for political reform took place across Spain on Sunday of last week.