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  Why job agencies prefer foreign workers

  21 Jun 2012: Employers complain of poor work ethic among Britons, with foreigners also happier to travel to find work

• Change rules on migrant workers, says Ed Miliband

  21 Jun 2012: Labour leader admits party allowed too many Eastern European immigrants into country by lifting controls too early

• The coalition's reforms will make the benefits system work better

  21 Jun 2012:

  David Freud: We're working towards a welfare state that gives support to vulnerable people but doesn't abandon them to a life on benefits

• Earls Court project: "people's estates" go to law

  21 Jun 2012:

  Will the Tories' flagship London borough re-think a major redevelopment scheme as its new leader faces a legal challenge?

• Life on the economic precipice

  20 Jun 2012: Letters: At present, 58% of children living in poverty live in households where at least one adult works and the number is rising

• Test policies in 'randomised controlled trials', nudge unit urges

  20 Jun 2012: Paper calls on ministers to adopt a 'test, learn, adapt' method to policy-making to gauge effectiveness and halt inadvertently harmful policies
  

• Steve Bell on Iain Duncan Smith – cartoon

  Cartoon, 19 Jun 2012:

  The work and pensions secretary accused of blaming poor people for his own policy failures

• Thanks to Iain Duncan Smith, now it's is the poor who must cry

  19 Jun 2012:

  The work and pensions secretary is blaming poor people for his own policy failures, says Bob Holman

• Pay to stay: consultation is first step to ghettoisation

  Guardian Professional, 19 Jun 2012:

  Housing minister plans to make social housing part of the welfare and benefits system – qualify or you're out, says David Walker

• To strike is a right – stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it

  18 Jun 2012: Frances O'Grady: This tough talk on strike action misses an opportunity to help low-paid workers in a meaningless attempt to please the right

• Millions of working families one push from penury, Guardian research finds

  18 Jun 2012: Findings that 2.2m children live in households on economic cliff-edge challenge coalition claim people are better off in work

• Workers who strike face benefit restrictions

  17 Jun 2012:

  Workers claiming benefit will lose top-up if they are responsible for a reduction in their income as a result of strike action

• Benefits for striking low-paid workers to be docked

  17 Jun 2012: Working tax credit payments to be stopped if wages fall as a result of industrial action under universal credit system plan

• Social housing tenants 'will face poverty' from benefits shake-up

  17 Jun 2012: Housing associations warn of lack of alternative properties for those forced to move by welfare cuts

• Disabled and elderly see their day centres and key services disappear as budget cuts bite

  17 Jun 2012: Elderly are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks, new research finds

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