Welfare

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• Iain Duncan Smith and the tall tale of the feckless layabouts

  12 Sep 2014: Hugh Muir: First thoughts: New research suggests that the work-shy scroungers who live off benefits as a ‘lifestyle choice’ may not actually exist

• Back-to-work help

  9 Sep 2014: It is important that politicians remain committed to helping the long-term unemployed

• Day-to-day public services to bear brunt of government spending cuts

  9 Sep 2014:

  OBR says welfare and debt interest payments may rise with cuts to hit public sector pay and procurement to balance the budget

• I'm on benefits - so no landlord would rent my family a house

  9 Sep 2014: Kirsty Jones: Negative attitudes towards people supported by benefits undermine the help that any safety net provides

• Yes or no, the SNP faces tough choices over public spending

  9 Sep 2014: Peter Hetherington: Whatever happens in the independence referendum, some on Scotland's centre-left have questioned the logic of 'middle-class welfare'

• Success of Angry Birds reflects growth of young entrepreneurship in Finland

  Guardian Professional, 8 Sep 2014: In a post-Nokia era, startups are emerging among an “empathetic generation” as a means not to get rich but to solve social problems, writes Tuukka Toivonen

• Lib Dems expand criticisms of coalition welfare policies

  7 Sep 2014:

  After siding with Labour to defeat bedroom tax motion, party takes aim at benefit sanctions as conference season approaches

• The Guardian view on David Cameron’s bedroom tax defeat

  5 Sep 2014: Editorial: By belatedly resisting a public-spending cut they once endorsed, the Liberal Democrats take the coalition into uncharted territory

• Bedroom tax: the Coalition's welfare Achilles' heel

  5 Sep 2014: The government's unexpected defeat over the Affordable Homes private members bill is the latest in a series of bedroom tax-related setbacks for ministers

• The disability movement is readying itself for battle

  5 Sep 2014: John McTernan: The Tories’ cack-handed attempts at benefit reform have united long-term sick and disabled claimants against them

• Bedroom tax bill splits coalition as Lib-Lab pact forces second reading

  5 Sep 2014: Labour MPs join with Lib Dems to defeat Tories 306 to 231 in vote on private member's bill sponsored by Andrew George

• Free school meals should be for those who need them, not those who don’t

  2 Sep 2014: Zoe Williams: This £1bn universal benefit is a punch in the face for the million people who need food banks

• Arthur Scargill's NUM inspires trade union drop-in centre

  27 Aug 2014: The Barnsley HQ of the 1984 miners' strike is buzzing again, as host to a Unite scheme aimed at empowering the community

• In this economy, being self-employed is not a choice but a necessity

  22 Aug 2014: Richard Seymour: The rise in self-employment is not a measure of entrepreneurial spirit, as touted by the government, but a sign of a lacklustre labour market

• The families at the front of the PM’s mind

  19 Aug 2014: Letters: Concern about the impact of the cost of living on home life is one of the bedrocks of socialism. Is Cameron a closet lefty?

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