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
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
Surge in those aged between 35 and 44 opting out of employment fuels welfare-dependency crisis
