After five years of visiting ‘left-behind’ areas, Hilary Cottam is hoping to solve Britain’s problem of high worklessness with her new book
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After five years of visiting ‘left-behind’ areas, Hilary Cottam is hoping to solve Britain’s problem of high worklessness with her new book
After five years of visiting ‘left-behind’ areas, Hilary Cottam is hoping to solve Britain’s problem of high worklessness with her new book
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A generation of young people are being let down by the education system

The number of benefit claimants not required to seek employment is soaring

Our overgenerous benefits system is basically paying young people to lounge at home and doom-scroll on TikTok

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, an estimated 14.4 per cent of UK households had no member in…

Lord Blunkett calls on Treasury to take action as think tank claims under-25s squeezed out of work by mass migration

Mental health issues and a lack of opportunities are opening a new front in the worklessness crisis